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Subject: Performance update involving zval containers. Why not possible?
From: ruben.santacruz@gmail.com (ruben)

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Hi,

first of all I want to say that I am just a newbie in PHP. I am 
switching to PHP from other languages and I am exploring how PHP manages 
references. To do that I am gathering information about what happens 
with Symbol Tables and Variables Containers when using references. You 
know: reference-counting, copy-on-write and all that stuff...

I found out some cases where I think that some Variable Containers 
copies could be skipped, thus saving memory and improving performance 
relying in the copy-on-write principle. I wrote a PDF trying to explain 
what I mean. It is not written in a very techy language, because I am 
just new and don't know too much about the internals, but I hope you can 
understand it and post your comments.

Probably if my "update" hasn't been done yet, is because it is not 
possible, but I will very glad to hear your comments and learn from you.

Thank you very much.


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