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Jeremy Andrews - October 28, 2026

From Malloc to Match (Part 1): The Evolution of PHP Through the Lens of a Systems Programmer

Jeremy Andrews, Tag1's Founding Partner and CEO, looks at PHP's early design through a former kernel developer's eyes, from hash tables for nearly everything to Drupal hooks built from strings. He shows what those trades cost Drupal 6 and 7, including hook lookups that took around 10% of page execution time, and how caching kept busy sites running.

Tags: Architecture, Drupal 7 Extended Support (D7ES), Drupal, Open Source CMS, Performance, Scalability

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