What is coming in PHP 4.0?

• Currently in late-beta
• Compiler, code runs significantly faster
• Better OO (syntax fixes, op. overloading, superclass ref.)
• Modular, self-contained extensions
• Database abstraction layer (ala Perl's DBI)
• Reference counting
• Thread safe core
• More server modules through SAPI
• foreach()
• Output buffering
• Support for a real debugger
• Support for caching compiled code
• Support for an optimizer
• Java ties