Re: New optimization idea; was: No runtime fetching of built-in global constants

I'm not Matt, but I'll try to answer :) Actually the new re2c scanner already handles the shebang thing, so I think you can safely remove the explicit support for it in CGI. We had to had that because CLI doesn't explicitly support the shebang line. Nuno P.S.: now it makes sense why we never found the code in the flex scanner that handled the shebang line :P On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:56, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > At first as you are a scanner expert, I would like you to look into another > optimization idea. > > Probably for historical reason PHP supports shebang lines > (#! /usr/bin/php) on top of php files. Especially to handle them PHP > (CGI/FastCGI/CLI) opens file and check for it. So even with opcode caches > FastCGI PHP does open syscall for the requested script, however with opcode > caches it's absolutely useless. > > In case PHP scanner will handle shebang lines itself, we will able to save > this syscall. > > I never had time and enough flex/re2c knowledge to implement this idea > myself. May be you'll able to look into the problem. In case you find a > simple solution we will able to do it in php-5.3. > > Most PHP hosters and large sites use FastCGI with opcode caches (it is also > the primary way for MS Windows users), so this optimization is really > important.