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Zend Engine
Original author(s)
Andi Gutmans, Zeev Suraski
Developer(s)
Zend Technologies, The PHP Development Team
Initial release
1999
Stable release
3.4 (PHP 7.4) 4.0 (PHP 8.0)
Repository
github.com/php/php-src[1]
Written in
C
Type
Scripting engine
License
Zend Engine License (some parts are under the PHP License)
Website
www.zend.com
The Zend Engine is a compiler and runtime environment for the PHP scripting language and consists of the Zend Virtual Machine, which is composed of the Zend Compiler and the Zend Executor, that compiles and executes the PHP code.[2] It was originally developed by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski while they were students at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. They later founded a company called Zend Technologies in Ramat Gan, Israel. The name Zend is a combination of their forenames, Zeev and Andi.
The first version of the Zend Engine appeared in 1999 in PHP version 4.[3] It was written in C as a highly optimized modular back-end, which for the first time could be used in applications outside of PHP. The Zend Engine provides memory and resource management, and other standard services for the PHP language. Its performance, reliability and extensibility played a significant role in PHP's increasing popularity.
This was followed by Zend Engine 2 at the heart of PHP 5.
This was followed by Zend Engine 3, originally codenamed phpng, which was developed for PHP 7 and significantly improves performance.[4]
The newest version is Zend Engine 4, which was developed for PHP 8.
The source code for the Zend Engine has been freely available under the Zend Engine License (although some parts are under the PHP License) since 1999,[5] as part of the official releases from php.net, as well as the official git repository or the GitHub mirror. Various volunteers contribute to the PHP/Zend Engine codebase.
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