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PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too
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?"
For Perl it's not only speed, but regexp power (to name one of its advantages). And if you dip into some more sophisticated Perl engines (Apache::ASP, Embperl or Mason) you'll find that Perl - as a language - gives one flexibility and scalability. For example, when a lot of engines are at their top, Mason just begins to spread its wings. I started my web scripting with PHP, then came to CGI, and now I'm using Apache::ASP and Mason.
And I simply don't understand why there is no difference between array and scalar.
Just finding inspiration, well, that's my excuse
And the compiler is only $399.00! And it only runs on x86, no Sparc, no AMD64, no PPC and no S/390 support!
What a deal, what a deal!