Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:33671 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 46671 invoked by uid 1010); 4 Dec 2007 18:33:01 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 46656 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2007 18:33:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Dec 2007 18:33:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:44294] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C0/00-46306-74D95574 for ; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:32:47 -0500 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by mx1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 20:23:35 +0200 Received: from [192.168.16.91] ([192.168.16.91]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:23:32 -0800 Message-ID: <47559B24.1090807@zend.com> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:23:32 -0800 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steph Fox CC: Michael McGlothlin , internals Mailing List References: <4731278C.8020301@chiaraquartet.net> <4731F977.4080502@zend.com> <4753B087.4020206@chiaraquartet.net> <47548031.20608@zend.com> <30bd80240712031605y326d886fl6197839a60eeedcf@mail.gmail.com> <47559014.2070607@zend.com> <30bd80240712040944we67015ds3b86c4f9efeb266f@mail.gmail.com> <475594FC.1060903@zend.com> <475598BB.2010203@swplumb.com> <024b01c836a2$5dc96260$e6dfc350@foxbox> In-Reply-To: <024b01c836a2$5dc96260$e6dfc350@foxbox> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Dec 2007 18:23:32.0418 (UTC) FILETIME=[C692F220:01C836A2] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] ignored patches From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) >> The need to pack a program all into a single source file for >> performance reasons would seem to indicate that the way PHP >> compiles/interprets could be improved. Wouldn't it be better to >> improve this area than add language features to deal with the issue? > > How do you improve the performance of a syscall? because that's the main > stumbling block here, at least as I understand it. I strongly suspect performance difference in bundles does not follow from syscalls. On include() PHP does a lot more than just issue a couple of syscalls. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com