2015-04-02 Thursday - PHP 7.0 aka PHPNG (Next Generation)

I'm doing a bit of background reading this afternoon - to refresh myself with the current state / future direction of PHP.  Over the years I've created a few web sites, tools, and frameworks with PHP for my own internal use  (e.g. a portfolio analysis web application, a rapid application development framework, CRUD/DTO modules emitted by a general purpose polyglot code generator).

There's a potential opportunity that might involve some PHP related architecture work - so this is a placeholder for some of my reading today:

http://php.net/manual/en/appendices.php

https://wiki.php.net/phpng

Dmitry Stogov's presentation: PHPNG A New Core for PHP7

Some noteable discussions of the PHPNG performance improvements...

• http://grokbase.com/t/php/php-internals/1455aesx7r/phpng-%04refactored-php-engine-with-big-performance-improvement
• https://ckon.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/php-5-7-twice-as-fast/
• https://ckon.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/phpng-hhvm-performance/
• https://community.centminmod.com/threads/php-5-7-almost-2x-times-faster-than-php-5-6.888/

https://wiki.php.net/rfc#php_70

https://github.com/php/
https://github.com/php/php-src