Re: Re: About optimization for compiler

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: julienpauli@gmail.com [mailto:julienpauli@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > > Julien Pauli > > Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 9:07 PM > > To: Dmitry Stogov > > Cc: Bob Weinand; Xinchen Hui; PHP Internals > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: About optimization for compiler > > > > As OPCache is nowadays not compatible at all with PHP7 (development has > > not started yet, or I'm not aware of it) , why not merge OPCache to PHP7 > > source tree (when the time for this will come), still as an extension at > > first > > time, and keep developing optimizer passes into this (aka : not in Zend/) > > ? > > It's a bit OT, but can you explain what you mean here? OPcache works with > the current master (PHP 7), and actually, OPcache worked with phpng all > along and definitely since it was merged into master... It's been > integrated to the php-src tree since it became standard in 5.5. Do you > mean > the standalone github repos for older versions? > I'm looking at https://github.com/zendtech/ZendOptimizerPlus , I cant find anything related to PHP7 for OPCache. So I was thinking OPCache was not compatible yet with PHP7. > > > I'm also +1 to keep our optimizations into OPCache (into an extension), > > I'm slightly confused - you mean keep it in (or move optimization over to) > the OPcache extension, or move it into its own extension? > If it's the former, then I agree. Optimization passes and opcode caching > are very much linked, as performing optimizations without having an opcode > cache rarely makes sense. > I agree with that as well, just Anthony gave a different opinion which seems right as well. Julien.P