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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:54:40 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Practical comparisons on PHP7
From: bjorn.x.larsson@telia.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Bj=c3=b6rn_Larsson?=)

Den 2015-12-10 kl. 12:16, skrev Lester Caine:
> On 10/12/15 11:02, Björn Larsson wrote:
>> Just noticed that Smarty team is working on a 3.1.28 relase that plans
>> to be PHP 7 compliant, see: https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty
> The version I'm running is not giving any errors, similarly ADOdb. Both
> were brought up to be clean on PHP5.4 and that seems to be the case with
> most BC problems. BUT should either of these packages need any 'major
> upgrade' to take advantage of a faster PHP7? They are e_strict compliant
> and well structured so why would they not perform twice as fast on PHP7?
>
Well, in the changelog dated 28.07.2015 they mention a PHP 7 compliant 
update.
I don't know if it's a must to run Smarty 3.1.28-dev in order use PHP 7. 
Anyway, I
plan to test Smarty with PHP 7 later in january next year.

Regards //Björn