Off the shelf garbage collectors such as BDW would be inappropriate
because we use some weird kinds of "pointers" (such as object handles)
stored in weird kinds of ways (such as a zend_hash object). I think it
would be pretty inefficient, since those implementations just scan the
stack, registers
> currently you only have one statement in each of those functions..
> anyway it's not critical to have static inline functions.
I will need to have them (multiple statements) for the cycle
collection code, and I don't think there are many situations involving
changing the way reference counting i
About the patch, the zval_*_p() functions don't really need to exist..
they can be macros as well.
As I said, if those were macros, it would be very difficult to squeeze
more than one statement into them.
Having multiple statements in Z_DELREF_P will also break that code. It
seems to me inline
