[RFC] Deprecate ticks

Hi Nikita,

wt., 11 maj 2021 o 10:53 Nikita Popov nikita.ppv@gmail.com napisał(a):

Hi internals,

I'd like to propose the depreciation of the ticks mechanism:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_ticks

I'm submitting this separately from the PHP 8.1 deprecations RFC, as this
is a language change, even if not a particularly important one...

Glad to see this topic. That's a YES 👍

Cheers,
Michał Marcin Brzuchalski

I'd like to propose the depreciation of the ticks mechanism:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_ticks

I'm submitting this separately from the PHP 8.1 deprecations RFC, as this
is a language change, even if not a particularly important one...

I came here to plea for the poor, disrespected ticks function.
Then I went to github and asked who was using it...
In the 10,000 results which came up for that string in actual PHP code, I
paged through the first 20% (2000) cases.
They were ALL either a phpt test file, or an auto-generated proxy function
(which appears to not actually have any uses).

So yeah. Pour one out for ol' ticks. May it rest in peace (following a
suitable deprecation period leading up to PHP 9.0).

-Sara

Hi internals,

I'd like to propose the depreciation of the ticks mechanism:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_ticks

I'm submitting this separately from the PHP 8.1 deprecations RFC, as this
is a language change, even if not a particularly important one...

Regards,
Nikita

To cross post a comment from the PR, in
https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6967#issuecomment-841344456 someone
mentions that they intercept and rewrite all included files to add
declare(ticks=N) in order to perform memory usage / performance monitoring.

Regards,
Nikita