At 02:04 PM 9/9/2004 -0400, John Coggeshall wrote:
>Personally I would like to see the hooks for op-codes stay in place, I
>think they offer a lot of possibilities for extensions. Andi, what do
>you mean "create the handler execution architecture"? I'm a little
>confused to what you are referring to.
I mean that what we have to day is the function handler dispatch
architecture (i.e. what it is in PHP 5.0.x). In PHP 4, we had switch().
Again, I think the opcode hook could be solved for people who want to do so
by having such a version floating around in the address space for
extensions that want to use it. It's a bit more memory but it's memory that
should be shared.
>PS -- I hated the switch() method ;)
It was definitely uglier and that's why I made the change but in many cases
the "goto and/or switch" dispatch methods are faster.
Andi
