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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 21:05:28 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposing inclusion of PCS in the 7.2 core distribution
From: kalle@php.net (Kalle Sommer Nielsen)

Hi Fran=C3=A7ois

2017-06-05 19:46 GMT+02:00 Fran=C3=A7ois Laupretre <francois@tekwire.net>:
> Hi,
>
> PCS provides a fast and easy mechanism to mix C and PHP code in PHP
> extensions (more about PCS at http://pcs.tekwire.net). Thanks to the PHP =
7
> performance improvement and the inclusion of opcache in the core, a lot o=
f
> existing non-performance-critical extension code may now be converted to =
PHP
> without significant performance loss (this must be measured case by case,=
 of
> course, but tests show that opcode-cached PHP code is often faster than C=
).

I think this is on the edge of being too late for 7.2, remember we got
the first alpha coming this thursday and the feature freeze on July
20th.

On topic, I think it looks very interesting, tho I need to dig a bit
more into it and would look forward to a formal RFC.

--=20
regards,

Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net