[RFC] [VOTE] JIT - Externals

5 years ago by Dmitry Stogov — view source

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Hey,

I'm starting the vote on JIT RFC.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed_properties_v2

The voting period is one week, until Thursday 28-03-2019 GMT.

Since the initial announcement and following discussions, RFC was imprved and implementation extended with support for Clang, Windows and ZTS builds.
Please reread RFC carefully.

Thanks. Dmitry.

5 years ago by Joe Watkins — view source

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Such complex and far reaching features should clearly have a two week
voting period, please update the RFC.

Cheers
Joe

Hey,

I'm starting the vote on JIT RFC.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit<https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed_properties_v2

The voting period is one week, until Thursday 28-03-2019 GMT.

Since the initial announcement and following discussions, RFC was imprved
and implementation extended with support for Clang, Windows and ZTS builds.
Please reread RFC carefully.

Thanks. Dmitry.

5 years ago by Derick Rethans — view source

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Hi,

The vote seems currently closed, but as long as it says:

Proposed PHP version: PHP 7.4

I won't be voting for it. This should squarely just be targetted at PHP
8.0.

cheers,
Derick

Hey,

I'm starting the vote on JIT RFC.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed_properties_v2

The voting period is one week, until Thursday 28-03-2019 GMT.

Since the initial announcement and following discussions, RFC was imprved and implementation extended with support for Clang, Windows and ZTS builds.
Please reread RFC carefully.

Thanks. Dmitry.

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5 years ago by Derick Rethans — view source

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Hi,

The vote seems currently closed, but as long as it says:

Proposed PHP version: PHP 7.4

The RFC doesn't say that, but the link in your email was:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed_properties_v2

Doesn't help if I read the wrong link!

But my quipe with having this in PHP 7.4 stands — it shouldn't be there,
not even disabled by default.

cheers,
Derick

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5 years ago by Dan Ackroyd — view source

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I won't be voting for it. This should squarely just be targetted at PHP
8.0.

Same thoughts here, extended to I don't think we should be having any
dramatic changes in 7.4.

Although the improvements that have been made from 5.6 to 7.x have been
great, businesses need a stable platform to deploy code to, where they can
expect:

i) the code to work.
ii) the code will work for years to come.

Including a feature that even the RFC says needs a lot of work, in what
will be the last 7.x release would mean that businesses shouldn't upgrade
to 7.4

cheers
Dan
Ack

5 years ago by Julien Pauli — view source

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I won't be voting for it. This should squarely just be targetted at PHP
8.0.

Same thoughts here, extended to I don't think we should be having any
dramatic changes in 7.4.

Although the improvements that have been made from 5.6 to 7.x have been
great, businesses need a stable platform to deploy code to, where they can
expect:

i) the code to work.
ii) the code will work for years to come.

Including a feature that even the RFC says needs a lot of work, in what
will be the last 7.x release would mean that businesses shouldn't upgrade
to 7.4

+1 , we should really target PHP 8.0 for such a BIG change in the code.

Julien.P

5 years ago by Nikita Popov — view source

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Hey,

I'm starting the vote on JIT RFC.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit<https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed_properties_v2

The voting period is one week, until Thursday 28-03-2019 GMT.

Since the initial announcement and following discussions, RFC was imprved
and implementation extended with support for Clang, Windows and ZTS builds.
Please reread RFC carefully.

Thanks. Dmitry.

Thanks a lot for your work on this Dmitry! I didn't expect to see full
Windows & ZTS support so soon :)

A few people have already commented on the question of 7.4 vs 8.0, here are
my thoughts on that.

Pros:

If Linux distros build with the JIT compiled in, we may get much more
testing, as not many people compile PHP themselves.
It allows testing the JIT on code that is not compatible with PHP 8.0,
but is compatible with PHP 7.4.

Cons:

The JIT for PHP 8 will (presumably) see a lot more work to improve
performance, in particular based on runtime profiling and speculative
optimization. This means that tests run with the PHP 7.4 JIT may not be
representative (and may show worse than actual performance).
It makes for better marketing to include it in PHP 8. PHP 7.4 is already
a very packed release (FFI, preloading, typed properties, type covariance,
??=, maybe short closures), probably the most important release since 7.0.
More maintenance burden: I think you are right that we won't be seeing
many major changes land in 7.4 anymore. But with the number of other big
features already in 7.4, I think we have enough new bug surface area to
deal with already. (Unfortunately we are still not on top of all stability
issues from PHP 7.3...)

Overall, I think overall we're better served with introducing the JIT in
PHP 8.0.

Nikita

5 years ago by Dmitry Stogov — view source

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Hey Joe,

Voting rules nothing say about "complex features" and 2 weeks voting period.

If you liked to change this, you might do it together with 50%+1 -> 2/3 majority change.

If you agree, I can extend voting period "pseudo proportionally" (to be 1.5 week), but I don't like to lose the following week.

Thanks. Dmitry.

5 years ago by Joe Watkins — view source

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Afternoon Dmitry,

If you liked to change this, you might do it together with 50%+1 -> 2/3
majority change.

The super majority RFC was already accepted ...

If you agree, I can extend voting period "pseudo proportionally" (to be
1.5 week), but I don't like to lose the following week.

I'm not sure what you loose, I'm sure that you gain the possibility of more
voters having the opportunity to vote.

Cheers
Joe

Hey Joe,

Voting rules nothing say about "complex features" and 2 weeks voting
period.

If you liked to change this, you might do it together with 50%+1 -> 2/3
majority change.

If you agree, I can extend voting period "pseudo proportionally" (to be
1.5 week), but I don't like to lose the following week.

Thanks. Dmitry.

From: Joe Watkins krakjoe@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 3:12:31 PM
To: Dmitry Stogov
Cc: PHP internals
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] JIT

Such complex and far reaching features should clearly have a two week
voting period, please update the RFC.

Cheers
Joe

Hey,

I'm starting the vote on JIT RFC.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit<https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed_properties_v2

The voting period is one week, until Thursday 28-03-2019 GMT.

Since the initial announcement and following discussions, RFC was imprved
and implementation extended with support for Clang, Windows and ZTS builds.
Please reread RFC carefully.

Thanks. Dmitry.

5 years ago by Dmitry Stogov — view source

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Afternoon Dmitry,

If you liked to change this, you might do it together with 50%+1 ->
2/3 majority change.

The super majority RFC was already accepted ...

If you agree, I can extend voting period "pseudo proportionally" (to
be 1.5 week), but I don't like to lose the following week.

I'm not sure what you loose, I'm sure that you gain the possibility of
more voters having the opportunity to vote.

I'm talking about a week of work, that I'm going to start when JIT accepted.

Thanks. Dmitry.

Cheers
Joe

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 14:11, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com
mailto:dmitry@zend.com> wrote:

Hey Joe,


Voting rules nothing say about "complex features" and 2 weeks voting
period.

If you liked to change this, you might do it together with 50%+1 ->
2/3 majority change.


If you agree, I can extend voting period "pseudo proportionally" (to
be 1.5 week), but I don't like to lose the following week.


Thanks. Dmitry.


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*From:* Joe Watkins <krakjoe@gmail.com <mailto:krakjoe@gmail.com>>
*Sent:* Thursday, March 21, 2019 3:12:31 PM
*To:* Dmitry Stogov
*Cc:* PHP internals
*Subject:* Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] JIT
Such complex and far reaching features should clearly have a two
week voting period, please update the RFC.

Cheers
Joe

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 12:58, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com
<mailto:dmitry@zend.com>> wrote:

    Hey,

    I'm starting the vote on JIT RFC.


    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit<https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed_properties_v2>


    The voting period is one week, until Thursday 28-03-2019 GMT.


    Since the initial announcement and following discussions, RFC
    was imprved and implementation extended with support for Clang,
    Windows and ZTS builds.
    Please reread RFC carefully.


    Thanks. Dmitry.

5 years ago by Peter Kokot — view source

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Hello,

Hey,

I'm starting the vote on JIT RFC.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed_properties_v2

The voting period is one week, until Thursday 28-03-2019 GMT.

Since the initial announcement and following discussions, RFC was imprved and implementation extended with support for Clang, Windows and ZTS builds.
Please reread RFC carefully.

Thanks. Dmitry.

+1 to both options. Having such feature in the PHP-7.4 is also good to
be able to check it out sooner (and to have some test base). With
having this in PHP 8.0 we will need to wait for more than a year to
check it out. I'm sure very little people will compile PHP 8.0-dev on
their own and install it to test that before the release. PHP 8.0.0
release could be also about removing deprecated functionality. This
approach is actually following semver https://semver.org, so that's
all good I think.

In any case if we will need to wait more than another year or not,
thank you for your great work. Thumbs up. :)

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5 years ago by Rowan Collins — view source

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I'm sure very little people will compile PHP 8.0-dev on
their own and install it to test that before the release.

I suggested before that a series of official PHP 8 preview builds could be released so that people didn't need to compile their own, and I believe somebody offered to do so.

The trade-off then is between testing an up to date JIT (as opposed to one snapshotted when 7.4 ships, with limited updates) and being able to test the JIT without fixing deprecation notices (but possibly encountering bugs already fixed for 8.0).

Regards,

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