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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Zend JIT Open Sourced
From: j.boggiano@seld.be (Jordi Boggiano)

On 27/02/2015 15:19, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>
>> On Feb 27, 2015, at 7:12 AM, Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dmitry and Zend,
>>
>> Thank you for sharing your code. I look forward to playing with it.
>>
>> Perhaps after 7 stabilizes (and ships) you could write up your
>> thoughts around it? Why decisions were made and the findings that you
>> have?
>
> Yes I think we can definitely do that. It is an interesting experiment and clarified also that JIT was less interesting in the short term as we can all observe by the fabulous results of the current PHP 7 runtime. But absolutely worth discussing post 7 as there surely are interesting opportunities.

Do you have a one line summary of why it's useless for real world 
applications? Is it just because they don't do enough number crunching 
compared to I/O or is it a matter of the JIT not kicking in fast enough 
to improve things in a single request cycle?

I am biased but if it improves the bench code so much it still sounds 
like a potentially good things for specific code like the composer 
dependency solver :)

Cheers