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124 mentions on Hacker News by 101 people: 28 stories, 96 comments · first 2009-07-24 · latest 2026-10-29

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  1. ▲ 2
    OPCache: Direct execution opcode file without PHP source code file
    story by ZnZirconium · 2020-12-07 · 0 comments
  2. C++ with lots of extern "C" , I imagine. Two examples: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/search?q=extern https://github.com/php/php-src/search?q=extern
    comment by tyingq · 2020-11-17 · in Best aspects of C
  3. …quite out of date as PHP has switched to a tracing JIT which appears to be heavily based on LuaJIT. https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5874 https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/4bf2d09edeb14467ba7955...
    comment by jashmatthews · 2020-08-30 · in Deep Dive into PHP 8's JIT
  4. …for an upgrade to not break something. There are dozens of breaking changes in this release alone: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/96c7d42a3ca9d822a08b3dd4... Some of the changes are sadistic. "The precedence of the concatenation…
    comment by john-shaffer · 2020-08-14 · in What's new in PHP 8?
  5. PHP 8 has plenty of breaking changes ( https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/08e6c209550a268500bbdef4... ), mostly in the department of throwing errors more aggressively, and fixing some long-standing "features" (like 0 == "foobar" being…
    comment by nikic · 2020-07-27 · in Named arguments are coming in PHP 8
  6. …A patch to disable the use of huge pages in memory allocator fixed a 10% performance regression: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/928c42211f737640e4dc3c... The patch to enable the Zend Optimizer on ARM64 accounts for about 5% of…
    comment by rob-olmos · 2020-07-17 · in Improving Performance of PHP for Arm64 and Impact on Amazon EC2 M6g Instances
  7. Yes, they are using DynASM. https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/opcache/jit/R...
    comment by tyingq · 2020-07-17 · in Improving Performance of PHP for Arm64 and Impact on Amazon EC2 M6g Instances
  8. ▲ 2
    PHP – Replace all whitelist/blacklist with allowlist/blocklist
    story by gitgud · 2020-06-15 · 3 comments
  9. There's pressure to change blacklist and whitelist to blocklist and allow list too... https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5685
    comment by gitgud · 2020-06-15 · in Show HN: Script that changes GitHub default branches to master
  10. There was an RFC for that, but it was voted out: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2049
    comment by SergeAx · 2020-06-10 · in 25 Years of PHP
  11. …with new technologies. [1] https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-was-the-backend-framework-w... [2] https://github.com/php/php-src/pulse [3] https://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Laravel
    comment by s1k3s · 2020-05-05 · in A look at modern PHP
  12. …look like this [0] (imagine it all implemented in assembly, without C's types, if you prefer). [0]: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/3709e74b5e495e210ada8039...
    comment by jbboehr · 2020-04-08 · in How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes
  13. …1 in case the header is present so strstr isn't being called an extra time in the current code. [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/3d9c02364db62a6d8e2794...
    comment by miguelxpn · 2020-03-02 · in I found and fixed a bug in PHP's standard library
  14. I was thinking the same so I checked and they removed the duplication: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/3d9c02364db62a6d8e2794... They also fixed the whitespace handling that let something like "RandomHeader: hello host:8080"…
    comment by kichik · 2020-03-02 · in I found and fixed a bug in PHP's standard library
  15. …that they did not understand nor had a rationale for, so those behaviors were removed as well: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5201
    comment by glofish · 2020-03-01 · in I found and fixed a bug in PHP's standard library
  16. ▲ 2
    PHP 7.4.0 Released
    story by velmu · 2019-11-27 · 0 comments
  17. …C API. Check out [2] for a deeper understanding of how arrays are handled internally in PHP. [1]: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.3.11/Zend/zend_typ... [2]: https://nikic.github.io/2014/12/22/PHPs-new-hashtable-implem...
    comment by capn_cabbage · 2019-11-10 · in Union Types have been accepted for PHP 8
  18. The commit that fixes it: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/ab061f95ca966731b1c84c...
    comment by orf · 2019-10-27 · in PHP-FPM remote code execution bug exploited in the wild
  19. re2c is used by PHP: https://externals.io/message/102796 https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/Zend/zend_languag...
    comment by openbasic · 2019-03-01 · in Re2c: A free and open-source lexer generator for C and C++
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    Features to be deprecated in PHP 8
    story by velmu · 2019-01-30 · 0 comments
  21. …behaviours - PHP with its plugin architecture, and CGI where all web requests go through FPs : https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/main/fastcgi.c#L8... .
    comment by jcelerier · 2018-11-19 · in Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Slower
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    PHP – Deprecate implicit nullable parameters
    story by BafS · 2018-09-19 · 1 comment
  23. https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.3.0alpha1/NEWS
    comment by kh3dr0n · 2018-06-08 · in PHP 7.3.0 alpha 1 Released
  24. Check out https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.3.0alpha1/NEWS
    comment by muglug · 2018-06-08 · in PHP 7.3.0 alpha 1 Released
  25. …language with a decent YACC. There's already a yacc file for PHP's parser, part of the PHP runtime: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/Zend/zend_languag...
    comment by johannes1234321 · 2018-03-02 · in Php-parser written in golang v0.3 is released
  26. PHP pcre is implemented in c https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/pcre/php_pcre...
    comment by barkingcat · 2017-02-08 · in Regex: badly needs fuzzing
  27. Well, I finally wrote a patch for that: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2160
    comment by TazeTSchnitzel · 2016-10-13 · in Why Unicode Won’t Work on the Internet (2001)
  28. Article: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0392/ PHP Source: https://github.com/php/php-src
    comment by PVS-Studio · 2016-04-28 · in PVS-Studio Team: Analysis of PHP7
  29. …up in development was this php7-fpm bug[1]. [0]: https://github.com/dshafik/php7-mysql-shim [1]: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1720
    comment by Judson · 2016-03-14 · in How Badoo Saved $1M Switching to PHP7
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    Commit to revert to mistaken implementation of mt_rand()
    story by mt_caret · 2016-02-19 · 0 comments
  31. …CN=mail.cweiske.de for pear.php.net. I don't even know what to say.. Well, happy hacking! [1]: https://github.com/php/php-src [2]: https://travis-ci.org/php/php-src [3]: https://travis-ci.org/php/php-src/jobs/94372493
    comment by motiejus · 2015-12-02 · in PHP 7 Released
  32. …return null and you can't use it (which I'm okay with) https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nullable_types https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1045 With this, it will permit to have even better static analysis "a la" HHVM/hack (i.e detecting that you…
    comment by allan_s · 2015-12-02 · in PHP 7 Released
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    PHP 7 Released
    story by legierski · 2015-12-02 · 307 comments
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    Php-7 released
    story by mustafauysal · 2015-12-01 · 0 comments
  35. ▲ 1
    PHP 7.0.0 RC1 tagged
    story by dumindunuwan · 2015-08-19 · 0 comments
  36. …comment below. The arguments against Exceptions began in the comments on the relevant pull request: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1397
    comment by sarciszewski · 2015-07-24 · in A call to PHP's mt_rand generates only odd numbers
  37. For nullable types, there's a plan/rfc to have them too https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1045 https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nullable_types not for 7.0 but hopefully for 7.1
    comment by allan_s · 2015-04-27 · in Comparing the PHP 7 and Hack Type Systems
  38. …for an opcode. [1] - http://www2.sys-con.com/itsg/virtualcd/dotnet/archives/0103/... [2] - https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/Zend/zend_vm_gen....
    comment by gopalv · 2015-02-28 · in Zend PHP JIT open sourced
  39. …takes years), there should be no development targeting version that was EOLed 4 years ago. [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.5/UPGRADING [2] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.6/UPGRADING
    comment by smsm42 · 2014-12-30 · in PHP Install Statistics
  40. …should use urandom. If no where else, when the program is first executed. And if you're on Windows: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/e6ea376a91514c59d21f4b53...
    comment by sarciszewski · 2014-12-09 · in Random in the wild
  41. …has committed multiple patches/improvements[1] to php-src as recent as PHP 5.6 Great explanation! https://github.com/php/php-src/commits?author=igorw
    comment by martin_ · 2014-09-23 · in PHP: why GOTO instead of recursion?
  42. …naming because the version file inside phpng says 5.7.0 - but that might just be a placeholder: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/phpng/main/php_version.h #define PHP_VERSION "5.7.0-dev"
    comment by ck2 · 2014-07-15 · in PHP 5.7 now nearly twice as fast as PHP 5.6
  43. …the space of URLs it can parse, but it's not difficult to cover all valid cases if you need to [2] https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/36b88d77f2a9d0ac74692a...
    comment by TazeTSchnitzel · 2014-06-22 · in In search of the perfect URL validation regex
  44. …your own litmus test. The PHPT runner that ships with PHP is actually thousands of lines long: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/7b7d2952a606fba6a5e21998... Keep in mind that PHPT files have to be parsed in userland. The runner has to…
    comment by cool_story_bro · 2014-03-19 · in PHPUnit 4.0 Released
  45. …tests in the original implementation [1][2]. I do not see anything on http://ph7.symisc.net/ . 1 - https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/master/tests 2 - https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/master/Zend/tests
    comment by kodablah · 2014-02-19 · in PH7 – An Embedded Implementation of PHP (C Library)
  46. There are people trying to take care of some of that already. https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/301 was at some point hoping to get into 5.6 but I don't know what happened to it since then.
    comment by nubs · 2014-02-17 · in List of possible changes, updates, additions for PHP 6
  47. …[1] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54547 [2] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62097 [3] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.3/Zend/zend_operat... [4] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/5.4/Zend/zend_operators.... [5]…
    comment by DCoder · 2013-12-25 · in High Quality PHP
  48. …standard implementation. Compare https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-php/tree/ma... to https://github.com/php/php-src
    comment by kodablah · 2013-12-17 · in The future of PHP, at a distance
  49. …apply to C code. Also, php-src has had coding standards that really haven't changed for years: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/CODING_STANDARDS
    comment by lonnyk · 2013-06-20 · in PHP 5.5 released and other things PHP related
  50. Changelog here: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0/NEWS Highlights: * Opcode cache ( https://wiki.php.net/rfc/optimizerplus ) * Generators and coroutines ( https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generators ) * "finally" keyword * Constant…
    comment by iso8859-1 · 2013-06-20 · in PHP 5.5 released and other things PHP related