Re: Benchmark of new VM

On 2004-09-26 03:05:18 +0200, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> said:

I'll see which parts of your patch can be adapted for 5.1.x. I think the var lookup is probably the most substantial one but I will probably implement it slightly different. I'll mail internals@ when I have something.

this needs to get fixed in the compiler. (which sterling and i didn't want to touch) to make things good - we should always fetch the same variable into the same register (in the compiler). that way we could check if the register is already "loaded" and only fetch from the symbol-table if not. unless i'm missing something this should be relativly easy and it would work better (gain us more speed) than the hack sterly and i did. for real register-reuse we would have to do some basic flow-analysis, which i believe is too much science for PHP... re, tc