Re: HEADS UP: Upcoming Feature Freeze for PHP 5.5.0

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 8:42 PM >> To: Zeev Suraski >> Cc: Rasmus Lerdorf; Ralf Lang; PHP internals >> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] HEADS UP: Upcoming Feature Freeze for PHP 5.5.0 >> >> hi Zeev, >> >> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: >> >> Either by a number of people stepping up to help with the existing >> >> APC >> > code, or >> >> perhaps more realistically making it a priority in PHP 5.6 to >> >> streamline >> > the >> >> engine and the executor for opcode caching and either including a >> > heavily >> >> simplified version of APC or writing a new one. >> >> >> >> One thing I can guarantee is that if we add it to core in its current >> > condition it >> >> will delay 5.5 by 6+ months if not longer. >> > >> > There's another option. We have the Optimizer+ component which is >> > current, a bit faster than APC, worked with PHP 5.4 from the get go >> > and already fully supports 5.5 - and now that it's been free for use >> > for several years, we'd actually be happy to opensource it and make it >> > a part of core. An extra benefit would be that we'd commit to >> > maintain it, although of course, community contribution will be very > welcome. >> > Here too, it's code with a very long history, some of which even >> > predates PHP 4.0. But It Works(tm), and we could put some effort into >> > cleaning it up and beautifying it. >> >> Thanks, That sounds great. >> >> > I think we can actually do it on time for 5.5.0, or with a relatively >> > minor delay that might be worth it. I'm sure most users would prefer >> > the version to take a bit longer if it comes with an opcode cache >> > right off the bat. >> > There'll most probably be APIs we'd want to merge from APC, but doing >> > that should be easy - and we can get the good of both worlds. >> >> Please don't bring over the user cache, please don't :-) > > Sounds like there's concensus we don't want these things coupled, so we > should probably handle that part separately :) > >> >> Quesiton: Does it support both NTS and TS? > > I think it used to but if it did that part hasn't been maintained for a > very long time. Not sure where it stands right now... That's where APC is very stable, we have spent quite some time to make it TS-ready, windows and linux. That's an area where I can help. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org