Re: About optimization for compiler

Hey: On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Xinchen Hui <laruence@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Internals: > > I was looking Bob's switch optimization.. And, I am not against this switch optimization.. I referring it to show where is my concerns came from thanks > > then I start to worry about where is the place optimization should goes.. > > in generally, PHP is a interpreted language. IMO, it should > compiler the PHP codes to opcode without any optimization(of course, > we did some, but they won't change a lots of opcodes which should be > generated).. > > and, since 5.5, we already have opcache bundled in.. > > thus, I am proposing a principle, that is: > > in the future, we only do optimization in opcache side, and keep > Zend Compiler without any optimization... considering Zend Compiler do > things in -O0. > > since, optimization always are dangerous.. if we only do them in > opcache, user can still run them codes with disable opcache, or at > least disable some optimization level which cause that.. > > what do you think? > > thanks > > -- > Xinchen Hui > @Laruence > http://www.laruence.com/ -- Xinchen Hui @Laruence http://www.laruence.com/