103: Caching up with Joe Watkins

Published: June 20, 2016, 6 p.m.

b'In this weeks episode we are lucky to be joined by Joe Watkins.\\nWe start off discussion around the development of PHP 7.1 and the recent initial alpha release.\\nFollowing this, we give an update on a couple of previously mentioned RFC\\u2019s, along with how Joe\\u2019s ones are doing.\\nThis leads us on to highlight how some small proposed changes are paving the way to optimal machine-code and finally integration of a JIT compiler.\\nSome of these proposed changes may result in backwards compatibility breaks, we discuss this topic and when it is deemed acceptable to permit this.\\nFinally, we chat about memorisation, caching and how it is not really feasible to distill a standard caching interface that fits all requirements.'