Preliminary Qt 5.8 Alpha Packages Now Available

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Preliminary Qt 5.8 Alpha Packages Now Available

The Qt Project is readying the Qt 5.8.0 Alpha toolkit release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-5.8-Preliminary-Alpha

[danielnez1]

The experimental platform QML types look very interesting.

[nerdopolis]

What about that QML compiler that was supposed to land and become open source for 5.8? ...Is that the part were it mentions the caching of the QMLC files?

[miskol]

What about that QML compiler that was supposed to land and become open source for 5.8? ...Is that the part were it mentions the caching of the QMLC files?

the call it:
Implemented caching of code and data structures generated from .qml/.js files to disk to reduce start-up time and memory consumption. The resulting .qmlc and .jsc cache files are memory mapped.
That is QML compiler

https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_5.8