PHP 5.4 Will Make the Web Faster | Linux Today

PHP 5.4 Will Make the Web Faster

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 2, 2012

“PHP 5.4 has just officially been release – and it’s a really
big deal.

I’ve been tracking the development of PHP 5.4 since at least
November of 2010 and the early alpha milestones. This is the first
major PHP update since PHP 5.3 came out in June of 2009. In alot of
ways though, the PHP 5.4 release is more important since it will be
an evolutionary step forward that likely won’t require code
rewrites.

The big item for me is performance and memory management which
are improved by double digit percentages.


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SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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