PHP 5.4 is here!
Before you start thinking about upgrading your server, you should know if it’s worth doing it.
YES!
According to Nettuts+, “the latest enhancements significantly improve its elegance, while removing deprecated functionality, resulting in a dramatic optimization of the runtime (up to 20% more speed and memory usage reduction).”
20%?
I like the sound of that!
That could effect those on the verge of needing a server upgrade.
Here are a couple other things you may be happy to see:
- Traits
- Built-in web server for dev purposes
- Shorter array syntax
- Array dereferencing
- $this in anonymous functions
- <?= is always on <— THIS!
- More!
Learn more about the new features, over 100 bugfixes and download PHP 5.4.0. on the PHP website.
I also recommend reading Nettuts+ post on everything you must know about PHP 5.4.
[via Nettuts+]
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