Can PHP Object Hydration Run 40x Faster?

Building a fast PHP object hydrator means moving all decisions — key lookups, type casts, property paths — out of the hot path and into code generation. By using reusable class-scoped closures instead of repeated reflection calls, and emitting only the operations each property actually needs, HydraType outperforms popular hydrators like Valinor by up to 40–50×, while keeping plain properties completely free of unused feature overhead.