This version of 25-year old PHP introduces an improved type system, a new JIT compiler in the PHP engine and some features borrowed from Python and JavaScript, such as named arguments and null ...

Friday, Facebook posted on GitHub its HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), which the company’s engineers call a just-in-time PHP compiler. According to Facebook, this PHP execution engine is 60 ...

Now a recently unveiled Roslyn-based compiler project named Peachpie allows PHP to be compiled into portable class libraries and executed in the .Net framework. In addition to possible performance ...