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Subject: re: ZTS performance
From: cshmoove@bellsouth.net ("l0t3k")

one observation i have is that in certain frequently called routines,
TSRMLS_FETCH() is called rather than having the the thread environment
passed in. zval_dtor comes immediately to mind (this only affects objects).
  the other thing that i wonder about is the current practice of macro
access to fields of TLS globals, rather than a single fetch of a pointer to
the global structure, then dereferencing from there. if you look at at
zend_execute.c, you'll see what i mean. this is just an amateur's opinion,
since i dont know the cost of macro call involved in such accesses. it just
seems to me to be more efficient to incur the overhead once (whatever it
is), and deref from there.

l0t3k
"Wojtek Meler" <wmeler@wp-sa.pl> wrote in message
news:20030324135821.E31290@wp-sa.pl...
> Hi!
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions ? Maybe I should use different thread
library ?
> Maybe TSRM should be rewritten ?
> Does anyone have any similar results (with code caching) ?
>
> regards,
> Wojtek