Re: Concerning Thies's and Sterling's "Hack"

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > As long as there are appropriate checks and fallbacks, I see no problem > > using compiler-specific hacks. Especially in cases where it would benefit > > a large percentage of users. > > Run-time execution time is not everything, otherwise the > whole world would still be using Assembler for all > programming. > > Hacks often adversely affect maintainability of any given > system. For example, the computed goto hack relies on > separate definitions of all opcodes. Failing to keep this > list up to date can result in subtle, hard to diagnose > failures which is undesirable for a stable system (PHP 4). As if the list of opcodes is likely to change in PHP 4. That sounds like a bogus argument to me. -Rasmus