That sounds wicked. I look forward to benchmarking it and seeing how its done. On 28 Apr 2016 6:39 p.m., "Sara Golemon" <poll...@php.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Dominic Grostate > <codekest...@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 >