Closed ghost closed 3 weeks ago
We could, let's keep this issue open to track interest in such a change.
Newer versions of xdebug are much faster for code coverage, due to optimizations and the ability to put xdebug in a coverage specific mode, without its other features. The poster of this issue has deleted their account and there is no other interest. I think we can probably close this out.
Pcov has a considerable performance improvement on generating coverage compared to Xdebug. So I think it would be great to have this installed by default just like Xdebug so people can choose what to use.
For example also see: https://dyrynda.com.au/blog/using-pcov-instead-of-xdebug-for-coverage