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PHP Development Team Announces PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2

posted by janrinok on Thursday June 25 2015, @12:54PM   
from the almost-ready dept.

DarkMorph writes:

Although the first alpha build of PHP7 was released just two weeks ago, the second build is already being rolled out. A variety of issues from 5.6 have been fixed as part of version 7's alpha build, and a rather comprehensive overview of new features and other language changes have been posted on PHP's official GitHub repository. Some of the most notable improvements are the boasted performance enhancement over PHP5.6, claimed to be up to twice as fast on 64-bit systems, and the well-debated inclusion of scalar type hints.

Additional history of the drafted and implemented changes for version 7 can be seen at the PHP Request for Comments Wiki.

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• Im not making up that i am often told that Im not making up that i am often told that (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 25 2015, @07:29PM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday June 25 2015, @07:29PM (#201184) Homepage Journal

  I dont know about sun specifically but java fans iften make that claim.

  optimize-it was a java leak detector that borland sold for thousands of dollars per license.

  i dont regard java as being less likely than C++ to leak. it's easy to write leak free c++.

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• Re:Im not making up that i am often told that Re:Im not making up that i am often told that (Score: 2) by fleg on Friday June 26 2015, @02:56AM

  by fleg (128) on Friday June 26 2015, @02:56AM (#201363)

  >i dont regard java as being less likely than C++ to leak.

  wow, my bind is moggled.

  >it's easy to write leak free c++

  "easy"? do tell

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  • I did tell, back in y2k I did tell, back in y2k (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday June 26 2015, @10:14AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday June 26 2015, @10:14AM (#201458) Homepage Journal

    not that one cannot write leak free java but that java is harder to get right.

    http://www.warplife.com/tips/code/c++/memory-management/parameters/ [warplife.com]

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    • Re:I did tell, back in y2k (Score: 2) by fleg on Sunday June 28 2015, @02:27AM

      by fleg (128) on Sunday June 28 2015, @02:27AM (#202305)

      funny. so which bit of that would cover "it's easy to write leak free c++"? operative word being "easy". because "easy" does not mean "this really is a complicated and detailed topic, and I worry that I will scare away beginners." which is from your own intro.

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  • Re:Im not making up that i am often told that Re:Im not making up that i am often told that (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday June 26 2015, @12:08PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday June 26 2015, @12:08PM (#201471) Journal

    It actually is much easier to write leak-free C++ with C++14 than it used to be. Basically, never keep bare pointers around and, if you're allocating objects on the heap, always use std::make_unique or std::make_shared. Avoid cyclic data structures (this is probably the hardest. When you have to have cycles, explicitly break them with std::weak_ptr).

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    • Re:Im not making up that i am often told that Re:Im not making up that i am often told that (Score: 2) by fleg on Sunday June 28 2015, @02:32AM

      by fleg (128) on Sunday June 28 2015, @02:32AM (#202308)

      interesting, i havent been keeping up with c++ (all my experience is pre c++11) so i hadnt come across those make_ functions before. thanks.

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      • Re:Im not making up that i am often told that (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday June 29 2015, @08:49AM

        by TheRaven (270) on Monday June 29 2015, @08:49AM (#202701) Journal

        If you haven't looked at C++ since before C++11, then I'd suggest taking another detailed look. The language now doesn't completely suck. It's now possible to write quite nice code in C++ (the problems with ABI fragility are still there, sadly). With shared_ptr and unique_ptr, lambdas, the threading and atomics libraries, it has many of the features that you actually want from a modern language. I've gone from hating C++ to tolerating it and using it as my default language for new projects as a result. There's absolutely no way that I'd contribute to a pre-C++11 codebase now though.

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