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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:50:18 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Which OSs and SAPI should PHP 5.6 support?
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

Hi,

I'll get back on the other things later, but a short comment (flaming)
on this:

On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 16:34 +0100, Terry Ellison wrote:
> 
> PHP (unlike some language alternatives) seems to be doing little to
> improve general performance, and the discussions related to
> performance on this DL are almost non-existent.  

Looking at any benchmark from 5.2 to 5.3 to 5.4 and 5.5 shows notable
improvements (5.4 to 5.5 maybe not as much as the others) saying we do
little is a bit misleading.

But well, it is simpler to do these syntax sugar things we're
bikeshedding about than doing actual core improvements. We have just
very few people fully understanding the engine and being able to improve
it. So such discussions gain no traction.

johannes