PHP Internals News: Episode 2: PHP Compiler and FFI
In this second episode of "PHP Internals News" we talk to Anthony Ferrara (@ircmaxell) about his PHP Compiler project, and the new FFI functionality that has made it into PHP 7.4.
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Show Notes
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Anthony's PHP Compiler project, with supporting libraries:
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RFC: FFI
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RFC: Locked Classes
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RFC: Deprecate alternate access to array elements and chars in string
Life Line
Merged pull request #1065
Comparison whether class is userland or internal used the wrong macro
PHP 8.6: zend_enum.h now mixes code with declarations
PHP 8.6: Argument names are now stored as zend_strings
Updated a bench and a waste_basket
I walked 8.3km in 1h25m37s
Created a recycling
I walked 10.5km in 1h46m57s
An interesting journey in story form, showing how English changed over time.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
A much better writer than I is summing up perfectly why I have such disdain for Generative AI/LLMs.
https://jonn.substack.com/p/so-why-do-i-feel-so-angry-about-this
Created a waste_basket; Updated a waste_basket; Deleted a bench
Created a bench; Updated 7 benches and a gate; Deleted 2 benches and a gate
Created 10 benches and 2 waste_baskets; Updated an information
Created a bench; Updated 2 benches; Deleted a bench
I hiked 18.1km in 3h17m10s
I walked 3.0km in 25m12s
Updated a restaurant
I walked 4.6km in 34m18s
I walked 0.7km in 5m33s
Updated a restaurant
Updated a pub
I walked 12.3km in 2h11m46s
I walked 2.9km in 29m53s
I walked 1.1km in 9m53s


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