(2022) They use KPHP which creates huge and a lot of files, similar to meta's php compiler or my B::C perl compiler in use at cPanel. In my case the outstandin

(2022) They use KPHP which creates huge and a lot of files, similar to meta's php compiler or my B::C perl compiler in use at cPanel. In my case the outstanding work was to avoid compilation at all, split it up into many modules/libs, and only compile those which changed. The mnain advantage is instant startup and less memory. With many shared libs the startup advantage is less, but you can still use static libs and use a modern fast linker. And avoid -g and use -Os