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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Union Types v2
From: phpmailinglists@gmail.com (Peter Bowyer)

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 13:47, Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think this performance impact is a real concern; PHP is the only language
> I know of which implements type checks entirely at run-time in production
> code, and we should ask ourselves if that's definitely the right approach.
>

As they are runtime checks, would an ini setting where they can be
completely disabled be feasible? So during development and in production
when the performance decrease doesn't matter, I can have the full runtime
type checking. But when absolutely needed, the checking can be disabled.

Peter

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