Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #3779 Updated: Crash in syntax hilighter

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Faisal Nasim wrote: > <cut> > > > > Zend Guys, is there any possibility to rewrite > > > the Zend engine in C++? It will make it alot > > > cleaner and possibly with less bugs (and perhaps > > > with more speed as well)! > > > > Perhaps with more speeed is a seriously over-optimistic statement, > > In some cases, I think, it will be faster because you have > to write equivalent code which has already been done in C++, > which is much more efficient and short. > > > Switching to C++ will almost definitely reduce the performance very very > > significantly (I can't say for sure, but it'll probably be in the range of > > 10's of %s). Also, C++ is much less portable than C, so we're not > > interested in switching languages. > > It can greatly reduce the overheads (if any) in hashes, > maps, arrays etc. since they are just by a number of people > world-wide, so the standard library for C++ is hyper-efficient! The map<> and other STL classes don't do exactly what we need and personally I don't love their interfaces too much. By the way, things like hash maps and not tree maps aren't in the standard of STL and thus not cross platform. > C++ is support on almost (I don't know which doesn't) all platforms! > the 'new' operator is more efficient than malloc(). Sure (NOT) as it usually wraps malloc() ;) Anyway, I do like C++ a lot but well, Zend and PHP are in C and that'll probably stay this way for a while, at least for PHP 4.0 & Zend 1.0. Andi