Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:45279 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 44007 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2009 08:58:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Aug 2009 08:58:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=scholz@scriptolutions.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=scholz@scriptolutions.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain scriptolutions.com from 85.13.138.236 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: scholz@scriptolutions.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 85.13.138.236 dd17920.kasserver.com Received: from [85.13.138.236] ([85.13.138.236:49952] helo=dd17920.kasserver.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id E4/31-36373-E3AC78A4 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:58:39 -0400 Received: from MYWORKSTATION (unknown [114.128.178.130]) by dd17920.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C7C182EF993 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:58:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:58:04 +0700 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.62.08) Professional Reply-To: Lothar Scholz Organization: Scriptolutions X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1035866081.20090816155804@scriptolutions.com> To: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <465610226.20090816150239@scriptolutions.com> References: <465610226.20090816150239@scriptolutions.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re[3]: [PHP-DEV] Design of the Zend Engine's Instruction Set From: scholz@scriptolutions.com (Lothar Scholz) >>> where the instruction encoding >>> is much more complex then for instance for the >>> JVM, Python, or Smalltalk. PB>> Yes, definitely. And again we see that complexity is just that complex but not necessarily good. As all others outperform PHP in all basic operations. But thanks for the discussion. I'm planning to start a new book project in a few month were i analyse the implementation of a few famous script language interpreters in great detail. -- Best regards, Lothar Scholz mailto:scholz@scriptolutions.com