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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)
From: morrison.levi@gmail.com (Levi Morrison)

> Personally I would love to see more RFCs focusing on performance and
> less on syntax changes.

Some recent tests I performed indicate that JavaScript and Dart are
both significantly faster than PHP when working with just arrays and
numbers. If anyone is interested I can provide the test code for more
scrutiny.  I'd like to see more performance enhancements but I am not
against other enhancements as well.