The need to pack a program all into a single source file for performance reasons would seem to indicate that the way PHP compiles/interprets could be improved. Wouldn't it be better to improve this area than add language features to deal with the issue?
How do you improve the performance of a syscall? because that's the main stumbling block here, at least as I understand it.
I strongly suspect performance difference in bundles does not follow from syscalls. On include() PHP does a lot more than just issue a couple of syscalls.
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