Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:107707 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 9461 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2019 19:08:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (76.75.200.58) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 27 Oct 2019 19:08:52 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 16:56:04 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 94.8.59.3 Subject: Re: Optional pre-compiler for PHP8? From: marandall@php.net (Mark Randall) Message-ID: On 27/10/2019 02:12, Mike Schinkel wrote: > Hello all: > And for everyone:> > What do you think of this as a potential future for PHP? I had received the impression that a lot of the problems for performance optimizations relate to how PHP can shift things around at runtime, where identical code at the run-site means something completely different in practice because the same class name or function has been included from one file, rather than another. I imagine if PHP had full knowledge of all its state, that might provide an avenue for additional optimizations.