It also turned off the suhosin author to the point where he moved onto other stuff.
He had some great ideas, now lost (no longer works with PHP > 5.3 )
But Zend shows up and folds back in some great stuff into PHP once in awhile.
Take a look at their now opensourced opcode cache, it's faster than all others.
That's kind of the exception instead of the rule, really. Andi and Zeev are very, very infrequent contributors to php-internals.
They proposed releasing the thing that became opcache after Rasmus finally convinced everyone how much of a pain in the rear end maintaining APC was.
It also turned off the suhosin author to the point where he moved onto other stuff.
He had some great ideas, now lost (no longer works with PHP > 5.3 )
But Zend shows up and folds back in some great stuff into PHP once in awhile.
Take a look at their now opensourced opcode cache, it's faster than all others.