Re: Switch Table Extension for PHP

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Dmitry Stogov wrote: > The whole idea is great, but it'll work without problems only if > switch-tables are constructed at compile (or optimization) time. > > The idea also won't work with variables and unresolved constants as > "case" labels (I saw your extension already carries about this limitation). > > I think the proper way to implement the idea is introducing a new opcode > ZEND_SWITCH which has switch table as IS_CONSTANT_ARRAY operand. Doesn't this make more sense to do in an optimizer? I thought the general idea was that we don't try to make the compiler do all the heavy optimizations.. as there are many more we could do here. regards, Derick -- HEAD before 5_3!: http://tinyurl.com/6d2esb http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org