> I think there's opcache enabled by default. Indeed, it's on by default in 8.5 and is no longer considered a non-optional extension (it's compiled in) - you c

> I think there's opcache enabled by default. Indeed, it's on by default in 8.5 and is no longer considered a non-optional extension (it's compiled in) - you can turn it off at runtime but it will be bundled, largely so they could have it on my default[1][2] and it simplifies integration of something that was universally integrated de facto before that. It was probably due/overdue but I actually like that they are conservative with which extensions become part of the "core" and in reality almost every packaging of PHP has included it back to 5.5 and having worked on large production systems written in PHP I can't think of a single one that didn't use it it in production. There is also FrankenPHP (and others) which negate much of that overhead (in worker mode). While introducing other issues you do have to be careful of that would be less of an issue in "classic" mode (literally what FrankenPHP calls it). There isn't a tonne of good info out of what you gain in the switch from nginx/php-fpm to FrankenPHP though it does seem like you do gain in some ways (but it's very application dependent). [1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/make_opcache_required https://wiki.php.net/rfc/make_opcache_required [2] https://www.php.net/manual/en/opcache.configuration.php https://www.php.net/manual/en/opcache.configuration.php