Re: Proposing inclusion of PCS in the 7.2 core distribution

Hi François 2017-06-05 19:46 GMT+02:00 François Laupretre <francois@tekwire.net>: > Hi, > > PCS provides a fast and easy mechanism to mix C and PHP code in PHP > extensions (more about PCS at http://pcs.tekwire.net). Thanks > to the PHP 7 > performance improvement and the inclusion of opcache in the core, a lot of > existing non-performance-critical extension code may now be converted to PHP > without significant performance loss (this must be measured case by case, of > course, but tests show that opcode-cached PHP code is often faster than C). I think this is on the edge of being too late for 7.2, remember we got the first alpha coming this thursday and the feature freeze on July 20th. On topic, I think it looks very interesting, tho I need to dig a bit more into it and would look forward to a formal RFC. -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net