- Support for PHP>=8.x
- PSR-16 cache support https://github.com/php-fig/simple-cache
- Run benchmark tests with https://github.com/phpbench/phpbench
- Split regex strings into array of strings. The main reason for this is future performance improvements, cross-platform compatibility and overall readability.
Other
- removed unused dependencies
- removed old examples
- rearranged /scripts/ folder