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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Disabling PHP tags by php.ini and CLI options
From: weierophinney@php.net (Matthew Weier O'Phinney)

On 2012-04-13, Tom Boutell <tom@punkave.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't this be a significant performance hit when multiplied by
> every class file in a project?

Typically, you'd cache the end-result of pre-processing, so that
subsequent requests can use the processed results. In other words, you
incur the expense once per file.

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> <weierophinney@php.net> wrote:
> > On 2012-04-13, David Muir <davidkmuir@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 13/04/12 14:55, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> > > > > If this is a pecl module library developers cannot use it and trust
> > > > > that on php 5.n, it just works. That would fork the language in an
> > > > > undesirable way. It should be a core feature, no ini flag, no
> > > > > sometimes-there module.
> > > > PHP 5.n is at least a year away, wide adoption of it - more like 5 years
> > > > away. So if you want to write code that would run anywhere (as opposed
> > > > on systems you control) you'd have to wait minimum 5 years. Wouldn't it
> > > > better to have it earlier?
> > > > OTOH, requiring extensions is a common thing for applications, and any
> > > > pecl extension is one command away for most setups, or one download away
> > > > for others. And can be made work even in 5.2 if desired.
> > >
> > > Can't it also be handled using streams to inject a leading <?php to the
> > > file prior to inclusion? A PECL extension would then just make it run a
> > > bit faster.
> >
> > I made this very suggestion earlier this week (we do this in ZF1 to
> > emulate short tag support for those who use them).


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