PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 13, 2004 @10:44AM 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?"

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Re:Cross Platform? by ergonal · 2004-07-13 10:51 · Score: -1, Redundant

It's a scripting language. You don't "comile" (sic) it, it's interpreted, and yes, code that works on Linux works on OS X and Windows (for the most part).
Re:Goodbye Perl? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-13 12:45 · Score: -1, Redundant

Except, of course, that you can download the compilers for Microsoft's languages for free. It's the IDE that they charge for.