PHP Next Generation

An anonymous reader writes "The PHP Group has put up a post about the future of PHP. They say, 'Over the last year, some research into the possibility of introducing JIT compilation capabilities to PHP has been conducted. During this research, the realization was made that in order to achieve optimal performance from PHP, some internal API's should be changed. This necessitated the birth of the phpng branch, initially authored by Dmitry Stogov, Xinchen Hui, and Nikita Popov. This branch does not include JIT capabilities, but rather seeks to solve those problems that prohibit the current, and any future implementation of a JIT capable executor achieving optimal performance by improving memory usage and cleaning up some core API's. By making these improvements, the phpng branch gives us a considerable performance gain in real world applications, for example a 20% increase in throughput for Wordpress. The door may well now be open for a JIT capable compiler that can perform as we expect, but it's necessary to say that these changes stand strong on their own, without requiring a JIT capable compiler in the future to validate them.'"

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Ad injection question

[Assmasher]

Hey gang, I have ads disabled and yet I am still seeing a thin banner ad that closely resembles the footer banner ad that runs along the bottom if you re-enable ads.

I thought this was a chrome extension issue as many popular chrome extensions have had malware added to them recently, and when an extension I suspected as being the problem was disabled the ad disappeared, when re-enabled the ad re-appeared. I figured the problem was solved. This was on a dev box at work.

When I got home I checked out my home PC to see if the problem existed - and yes, it did. This time, however, disabling that same extension did not cause the ad to appear/disappear, the ad remained. So I disabled all extensions, and the ad remained. I scanned my machine with Malwarebytes Pro, ho hits. I then fired up Firefox (it has been a while) and updated it, then checked slashdot and replicated the same issue.

The ad looks exactly like a slashdot banner ad, seems to serve the same types of ads that a slashdot ad would, except that it is always just below the text of an article on the article's page - and ads are disabled.

Anybody else experiencing this?

Cheers