Re: Re: [RFC] Union Types v2
| From: | Peter Bowyer | Date: | Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:08:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [RFC] Union Types v2 | ||
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 13:47, Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this performance impact is a real concern; PHP is the only language
> I know of which implements type checks entirely at run-time in production
> code, and we should ask ourselves if that's definitely the right approach.
>
As they are runtime checks, would an ini setting where they can be
completely disabled be feasible? So during development and in production
when the performance decrease doesn't matter, I can have the full runtime
type checking. But when absolutely needed, the checking can be disabled.
Peter