Re: Feature Request: inline pseudo-instruction

On 04.10.2016 at 13:33, Pascal KISSIAN wrote: > I have an application where a small file is included at multiple places. > > So far so good. > > The problem is that this include consists in a small piece of code which is > inside a multi-level loop. > > The include is done about an average of 100.000 times . > > When I manually replace the include with the code which is inside, the > performance boost is about a 50-100 factor.. > (with opcache enabled, it is far worst without opcache). > > The problem is that if I make a change within the code, I do have to not > forget to make changes a dozen of places... > > Could it be possible to add a directive such as : > > inline < filename > > > That includes the file inline within the compiled pseudo code (at compile > time) ... > > (it does not have a big importance for me that the target pseudo-code sets > the line number of all inlined instructions to the line number of the inline > directive) > > Am I the only people needing this feature ? If you really need this feature, I suggest that you're using a preprocessor to prepare the files before they're compiled by PHP. A rather simple PHP script using preg_replace() might already be sufficient. -- Christoph M. Becker