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Why does a backslash prefix improve PHP function call performance? Freek Van der Herten's blog on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript explains why. You'll get notifications for us when something's wrong. You'll also be able to create a public status page under a minute.

Why does a backslash prefix improve PHP function call performance

<p>I noticed a performance boost of 26.44% when using \strlen($a) instead of strlen($a). I think this is the kind of optimizations you make when you use specific functions millions of times per second and speed matters a lot.</p>
