Re: JIT (was RE: [PHP-DEV] Coercive Scalar Type Hints RFC)

2015-02-22 14:37 GMT-04:00 Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>: > I think it's fair to say that Dmitry - who led the PHPNG effort - cares *a > lot* performance. I'm sure you'd agree. I tend to think that I also care > a lot about performance, and so does Xinchen. We all spent substantial > parts of our lives working to speed PHP up. It's not whether we think > performance is important - it is (although we do believe we should build > optimizers for languages, more so than languages for optimizers). It's > just that we all fail to see how the flavor of STH can have any meaningful > influence on performance. > > Thanks for the feedback! > > Zeev > Thanks for the insightful response! Now it would be nice to also see the opinions of the other camp.