PHP 7.0 Beta 1 Brings Better Performance, New Language Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PHP 7.0 Beta 1 Brings Better Performance, New Language Features

The first beta of the upcoming PHP 7 was released a few days ago. PHP 7.0 Beta 1 marks the point that this major update to PHP is feature-complete...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...PHP-7.0-Beta-1

[uid313]

Nice with more exceptions, it will make the language feel more modern and easier and nicer to develop with. It sucks have to check if the return value is -1 or things like that.

[uid313]

Still no support for annotations.

In C#

[Authorize]
public string Foo() {}

In Java

@Authorize
public string Foo() {}

In Python

@Authorize
def Foo():
    return 123

[Calinou]

Still no support for annotations.

In C#

[Authorize]
public string Foo() {}

In Java

@Authorize
public string Foo() {}

In Python

@Authorize
def Foo():
return 123

What is this useful for (ie. what's the difference with a comment)?

[TheOne]

Here is a presentation by Rasmus and he also shows some benchmarks of PHP 7 against HHVM 3.7, and PHP 7 could be faster than HHVM in some scenarios, https://youtu.be/eBJdi_h_rKM?t=24m6s

[Rubberman]

Well, 5.5.4 had serious issues with http output protocols. Have they fixed that, or do I need to fix it again? I didn't have a chance to push the fixes back into the base code when I was at Nokia.