Re: [VOTE] Integrating Zend Optimizer+ into the PHP distribution

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>wrote: > Hi! > > > It's not a syntax change, but it is a very, very large engine change. > Yes, > > it does not touch the Zend engine itself, but it adds a large amount of > new > > code that is close to the engine. People doing engine changes will need > to > > modify it too (thus it is quasi part of the engine, even if it lives in a > > I'm not sure how it makes sense - people changing the engine had to > modify SPL or libxml or SOAP extension, for example - so now SOAP is > part of the engine? Since engine is underlying API, if you modify the > engine then you may have to modify extensions, doesn't mean all > extensions are part of the engine. I find this pretty strained argument. > The difference between SOAP and ZO+ is the level of integration and dependency. If you do a change in the ZE there is a very high chance that you will not have to touch any code in SOAP, but you will quite likely need to adjust something in ZO+. Phar is the only of the current extensions that comes anywhere close to this. And ZO+ is still a *lot* more tightly integrated than Phar (and you know what a PITA Phar can be...) If you don't see that ZO+ is an extension that is very tightly integrated with the ZE and rather sensitive to change, then sorry, can't help you. To me this seems obvious. Nikita