Zend Engine 2.0: Feature Overview and Design

In the past few months we've been working on designing what we see as the next generation of the Zend Engine. Some of these features won't be new to you as they were often requested on the php-dev mailing list and other PHP forums; Others come to resolve problems which were often raised. We have gathered what we think are the most important features which will not only lead to a great improvement in the Zend Engine but that will also retain the language spirit of today's scripting language. Another important decision was not to overpopulate this document so that these goals can be achieved in a relatively short period of time (a few months). Attached is the first draft of the mentioned document. Thanks to Andrei Zmievski for providing helpful feedback and comments on the initial design document. What we'd want is to get feedback and comments from the rest of you so that we can refine and finalize the current draft and incorporate needed changes into the PDF. In addition there are still a couple of open issues in the document itself that need to be discussed. For this purpose we opened a mailing list for discussing the Zend Engine 2.0. You can subscribe by mailing engine2-subscribe@lists.zend.com. You're quite welcome to join in! Andi & Zeev

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