Re: Reporting bugs for phpng

hi Dmitry, On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > hi Pascal, > > Laruence is right - immutable arrays are not destroyed until the end of > request and this causes a problem in your case. > > I've committed a partial fix that destroys unnecessary copies when script > is cached by OPCache, but it doesn't work without opcache or when it > doesn't have enough shared memory. > > Disabling immutable arrays for top-level code looks as a too pessimistic > decision. Most apps have their configuration arrays in top-level code and > only few might be affected by this problem... > > I think, we may introduce new pragma that might enable/disable immutable > array creation during compilation. > So applications that use a lot of big arrays may modify the default > behaviour for some files. > > e.g. > > <?php > declare(immutable_arrays=>'off'); > $a = array(...); > ?> > > Thoughts? As I agree that a solution has to be found, introducing pragma is definitively not something I like to see in PHP, options like that are way too low level and should not be exposed in userland. It will make PHP way too complex. Cheers, Pierre