Re: Previous discussions about generics syntax only?

On 3 November 2023 16:05:52 GMT, daniil@daniil.it wrote: > (of course this would be somewhat of a breaking change, PHP 9-worthy). I think this is rather an understatement. This would be a HUGE change for many users of the language, and expect a lot of pushback for any such proposal. There are still a lot of people who use a cheap shared host, edit a file directly on the live environment, and expect it to just work without needing any kind of rebuild or restart step. >This is a different, unrelated matter, and it would actually be super cool to generate a single >executable using function JIT, bundling both the compiled php code and php itself; I've >actually already done this as an experiment with another JIT language based on dynasm, it's >quite simple really. When I talk about "compiling PHP", I mean the existing compilation to op codes! maybe stabilising them for deployment, maybe just using the existing OpCache preloading. If you use the JIT in advance, it becomes a very different tool - the point of JIT compilation is to make use of runtime information about hot paths, the actual types of dynamic arguments, etc Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]