Re: Inline functions

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Dominic Grostate <codekestrel@googlemail.com> wrote: > As I understand it, the process by which the call stack is updated and > scope changed, is quite expensive. And from tests I can see that function > calls do actually add a not insignificant overhead to intensive repetitive > tasks. > > So how difficult would it be to get the engine to determine if an inline is > feasible, then skip the fcall init, and dump the a functions opcode emits > directly into the current scope? > I'm actually working on a proof-of-concept of that already. I've already got basic proxy methods getting inlined, and am working up through expression methods and trying to resolve scoping with $this and non-publics. I'll publish a branch on github when I have something interesting to share. -Sara