Re: Method call improvements

Thanks Dmitry, I imagined that. I just thought it was already applied, but it's not. So I spoke a bit with Lukas and he suggested me to revamp this discussion, since it stopped all of a sudden. Anyway... once you guys find a final patch, should I expect it at least commited into HEAD? Cheers, On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > Hi Guilherme, > > 5.3 is closed for major updates (it is in RC state). I would try to look > into this when we develop a strategy for next PHP version. > > Thanks. Dmitry. > > Guilherme Blanco wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> What's the status on this one?! >> >> It's an important optimization that should be considered. Save more >> than a million method calls on a framework does not worth? >> None gave a final word on this subject. >> >> I could not see this commited in 5.3 neither in HEAD. >> So...can someone notify me about the status of this??? >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: >>> >>> Marcus Boerger wrote: >>> >>>> Aren't we able to bind these at least partially to the function call >>>> opcode, in case we know they are constant? If all is constsnt we could >>>> even store the whole lookup in the opcode. Well you'd have to convince >>>> Zend to do that because os far they have always been against this >>>> approach. >>> >>> We can't modify opcode it self as it'll break opcode caches. >>> >>> However we can introduce some indirect table associated with op_array, >>> which >>> can be used to implement inline caches without direct opcode modification >>> (in the same way as IS_CV variables work). There are a lot of papers >>> about >>> polymorphic inline caches (e.g. >>> http://research.sun.com/self/papers/pics.html) which we >>> probably should >>> use >>> to not to invite bicycle. >>> >>> Thanks. Dmitry. >>> >>> -- >>> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> >> >> >> > -- Guilherme Blanco - Web Developer CBC - Certified Bindows Consultant Cell Phone: +55 (16) 9215-8480 MSN: guilhermeblanco@hotmail.com URL: http://blog.bisna.com São Paulo - SP/Brazil