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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:50:34 +0300
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To: Xinchen Hui <laruence@php.net>
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Subject: Re: Drop Multiply VM kind support
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)

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Hi Xinchen,

I don't like to remove anything. I think GOTO may be made faster. It's just
not very interesting to invest into it, because CALL is more suitable.

execute_data->opline->handler(execute_data); won't work with CALL and
global CPU registers s well :(

Thanks. Dmitry.



On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Xinchen Hui <laruence@php.net> wrote:

> Hey:
>
>      We have CALL SWITCH GOTO vm kind supports for long time.
>
>      And we use CALL for default.
>
>      SWITCH GOTO seems useless now, and brings us some troubles while
> maintaining .
>
>      And also could make some extension unable to work, like in phpdbg:
>
>               PHPDBG_G(vmret) =
> execute_data->opline->handler(execute_data);
>
>
>      So, maybe it's time for us to remove GOTO and SWITCH at all?
>
>  thanks
>
> --
> Xinchen Hui
> @Laruence
> http://www.laruence.com/
>

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