Re: [RFC] Preloading

Just a side question: will the information on preloaded userland classes and functions be available via php --rc / php --rf commands? On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:42 AM Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > > On 10/25/18 10:47 AM, Michael Wallner wrote: > > On 20/10/2018 15:06, Dmitry Stogov wrote: > >> > >> On Oct 19, 2018 5:20 PM, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 3:17 AM Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > >>> I would like to start discussion on a Preloadng RFC > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/preload > >>> > >> 4) "In conjunction with ext/FFI (dangerous extension), we may allow > >> FFI functionality only in preloaded PHP files, but not in regular > >> ones." Is there any interest in something like HHVM's HNI interface? > >> FFI always sounds nice in theory, but complex types mean that a little > >> bit of glue code is often a plus. > > > > As always when it comes to PHP and FFI I'd like to point out ext-psi [1] > > which uses a different approach than other PHP FFIs until now. > > > > It parses PSI files at startup, which basically are C header files > > augmented with the PHP userland interface decls, see for example the PSI > > file for time.h [2] > > > > As you can see, marshalling from and to native types has been taken > > seriously, and while we're capable of recursively unmarshalling e.g. > > addrinfo structs [3] and handling sqlite callbacks [4] it's still not > > possible yet for something like curl_easy_setopt. > > > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/m6w6/ext-psi > > [2] > > https://github.com/m6w6/ext-psi/blob/master/psi.d/time.psi > > [3] > > https://github.com/m6w6/ext-psi/blob/master/psi.d/netdb.psi#L70 > > [3] > > https://github.com/m6w6/ext-psi/blob/master/tests/netdb/gai001.phpt > > [4] > > https://github.com/m6w6/ext-psi/blob/master/tests/sqlite/sqlite.psi#L56 > > [4] > > https://github.com/m6w6/ext-psi/blob/master/tests/sqlite/sqlite001.phpt > > > > > hi Michael, > > You made a great job developing ext-psi. > > But anyway, I more like my own FFI implementation (at least because it's > simpler and it's mine). > > FFI::load() in conjunction with preloading, would provide functionality > similar to PSI files loading on startup. > > In the future, I would like to push ext/FFI into core and integrate it > with JIT (similar to LuaJIT way). > > In any case, this thread is about preloading, that is interesting by > itself. FFI and JIT are the future scope. > > Thanks. Dmitry. > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Best regards, Victor Bolshov