[PHP-DEV] Re: Type hinting/casting request for vote

2009-07-08 Thread Ben Yan
Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: Last week or so there was a fairly detailed discussion on the internals list regarding type hinting based on my original patch. Since then the patch has been revised to address the major concerns that were identified (breakage of binary compatibility) as well extended wi

[PHP-DEV] Some assumption about improving Zend Engine:

2005-12-09 Thread Ben Yan
PHP6 is about to make OPCode caching mechanism build into Zend Engine, without question this will improve PHP dramatically.But I have a radical thought: why not to directly run ZIC(Zend Intermediate Code) files that have been compiled instead of handling PHP source scripts. Just like a execrutab