Re: Function caching...

On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Well, I don't remember this entire heated conversation by heart, and it was > hardly clear from those two sentences, taken out of context, what you meant... > At any rate - about this specific discussion - of course he's free to do > what he wants. Does the fact I think that it's slow, inefficient, makes no > sense, or plain and simple - wrong, mean that I'm patronizing him? > > Mind you, *because* PHP doesn't perform very well with the approach he's > taking, he wants to change it upside down so that it does. That's where we > should tell him to stop, and rethink *his* design, instead of saying 'Sure, > why not, lets redesign PHP'. That guy actually wasn't saying PHP should be redesigned. And, don't take this the wrong way, but I still wonder why you feel justified making comments on the way other people develop PHP applications because I seem to remember you saying that you haven't really developed a PHP application beyond a two-line script. Sure, you wrote the Zend engine, but it's very different from writing Web apps. -Andrei "Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it" -- Richard Feynman