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PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pronounced-like-it's-spelled dept.

TheTomcat writes "After years of anticipation, PHP 5 was released today. This release represents a milestone in the evolution of PHP. It sports the new Zend Engine II, a completely re-worked object model, and many many new features. Check it and the changelog out." In other PHP news, remote_bob writes "There have been many attempts, like BinaryPHP and PASM, but finally there is a complete compiler for PHP. The Roadsend compiler produces standalone, native executables, and supports the entire PHP language (but not all extensions). It uses Bigloo Scheme to do its job, a variant of Lisp, the language that Paul Graham writes about. Benchmarks say that performance is pretty good. Is this another sign that dynamic languages are the future?"

5 of 524 comments (clear)

  1. flamebait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    damn flamebaiter he beat me to it.
    yrrab

  2. YOUR MUM LICKS MY BOTTY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fifth post cuntys.

    sdfsdf
    sd
    What is it all about `POst comment'? Is it good or is it whack? Calcgamnes stylee

    Im fucked.

  3. Hurray! by AcornWeb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now all we need is for Cpanel to officialy support it and I'll be able to upgrade all my software to use it; finally ...

    --
    Your Windows PC is my other computer.
  4. Re:holy shit batman! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why are the bodies in the freezer? Is this good or is this whack?

  5. Re:Goodbye Perl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Plenty of other nicer [rubylang.org] languages [python.org] exist. [php.net]

    So name one.