PHP 8.0 branch cut

Am 15.09.2020 um 08:19 schrieb Brent Roose:

Is this still on the roadmap?

I hope so, too.

Hey Dmitiry

Speaking of the JIT. I remember berblei mentioning that the JIT
configuration options were going to change prior to the final 8 release (
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/hjxlh9/jit_benchmarks_on_reallife_web_applications/fwuje8g/
<
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/hjxlh9/jit_benchmarks_on_reallife_web_applications/fwuje8g/>;).
In other words: not one value with several integer flags, but dedicated
options for every configuration entry. Is this still on the roadmap?

Hi Brent, Hi Sebastian,

this is already done by this PR https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5913

The options to talk about and use in docs/posts are the following:

opcache.jit=yes|true|1
opcache.jit=tracing
opcache.jit=function

These differentiate the Tracing-JIT from the Function-JIT. Default is
tracing.

Kind regards
Brent

This also gives me a time frame to clean up JIT code without hurry.
I plan to separate the common JIT code, and merge JIT and VM helpers.

Thanks. Dmitry.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 9:39 AM Nikita Popov nikita.ppv@gmail.com
wrote:

Next Tuesday, Sep 15th, has been marked on my calendar as the branch
date
for PHP-8.0 which would open master up for 8.1 targeted work.

This would mean that bug fixes would need to include PHP-8.0 in their
merge
chain (meaning more work to merge 8.0 targeted fixes).

Please let Gabriel and I know how you feel about this date. I can see
that
master is still quite active, and I don't wish to make the work to
stablize
the 8.0 release any more difficult than it has to be.

I think it would be good to make this week's release beta4 rather than
rc1
(without affecting the rest of the schedule). In that case we'd also
push
back the branching and final ABI freeze two weeks.

We're close to done with the warning to Error exception promotion task,
but haven't really started on reviewing and consolidating parameter
names
yet (in preparation for named parameters). It would be good to have
that
work mostly finalized before RC1, so we can limit the number of
nominally
BC-breaking changes past RC1 (I expect we'll still fix some things that
slipped through the cracks, but at least we should prevent any mass
changes).

Yep. This seems like a reasonable adjustment to the schedule in order to
finalize these features. I'll do beta4 tomorrow/thursday, and we should
plan for RC1 branching in two weeks. Wiki (
https://wiki.php.net/todo/php80 )
has been updated to reflect this. Note that I have NOT moved the GA
date
at this time, as that would push us into Dec 10th. Though as the date
approaches we may decide to add RC5 back in for safety despite the
perinavidinal timing.

-Sara

P.S. Yes, I made that word up. You know which one.