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PHP 4.3.0 w/ZEND 2 Alpha

Posted by timothy on from the folding-things-in dept.

Twintop writes: "PHP.net has released the a new version of PHP 4 to include the new Zend 2 Scripting Engine. This alpha update adds more increased support for Java and .NET technologies. More can be found on PHP.net and Beta News.com."

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  1. Re:So misguided by andy@petdance.com · · Score: 5, Informative
    Well, when you consider that PHP is primarily used as a scripting language on web servers, it makes sense to optimize for performance. You can't have processes hanging around too long, else they start to clog things up and pretty soon you have a really lovely rackmounted paperweight.

    And that's what happens now if you do any amount of use of classes. Unless you buy the Zend Optimizer, anything that uses classes requires tons of recompilation of the PHP code for each page. We found that we were spending 20% of real response time just recompiling the class files for each page.

    This performance tweak is just a drop in the bucket compared to that.