Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote
| From: | Lukas Kahwe Smith | Date: | Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:10:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote | ||
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On 09.07.2009, at 02:28, troels knak-nielsen wrote:
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Mark<markg85@gmail.com> wrote:well .. this will have an effect on performance. for one the additional checks will probably add a small overhead for all users. the reduction in user land type check code should of course improve performance. that being said, none of the above will have a significant relevant affect on performance in real world applications (which usually spend most of their time talking to data stores and not type checking). regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.orgI personally would be highly in favor of adding type hinting/casting BUT with the benifit that php actually becomes faster if you do things like that. Afterall you can use way more effective c code if you know what you expect right? As for the version to include typeI sure hope that all the people in favour of this change aren't basing their opinion on some delusion that it would improve performance in any way.