Re: Dismantling the lies...

> > Well, php test suite is a functional test, so if the patch is done > correctly it'd pass of course. I'm moe worried about the performance - > my experience shows that the guesses are often wrong when talked about > performance effects in complicated code. If you would have time to run > a benchmark using something like bench.php and maybe some more > complicated code, it'd be nice to know the result. bench.php is a totally unrealistic benchmark that has nothing todo with real life PHP applications. Of course when you call a function several million times the performance penalty will be big if you add code that executed with every function call. But in reality PHP applications don't call millions of functions. Most of the waiting time in PHP applications is waiting for disk/DB I/O operations. Stefan Esser