On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 3:21 PM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:52 AM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi internals, >> >> I'd like to propose the depreciation of the ticks mechanism: >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_ticks >> >> I'm submitting this separately from the PHP 8.1 deprecations RFC, as this >> is a language change, even if not a particularly important one... >> > > To cross post a comment from the PR, in > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6967#issuecomment-841344456 someone > mentions that they intercept and rewrite all included files to add > declare(ticks=N) in order to perform memory usage / performance monitoring. > In the same thread someone points out that there is a WordPress proflinig plugin using the same approach: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6967#issuecomment-859124223 I think I'm going to withdraw this RFC. Keeping this functionality is not a particularly large burden on us, and some people are getting some use out of it, even if those uses are rather ... adventurous. Regards, Nikita
