On 07-05-2020 17:24, Larry Garfield wrote: > Between preloading, PHP 7's improvements, FFI funkiness, and the upcoming > JIT, there's been on and off discussion about moving much of the standard > library from C to "PHP code that is bundled and preloaded automatically." A > real "standard library" in PHP, rather than a bunch of bridged C functions > that exist for the legacy reasons Dan notes above. > > Making that actually a thing would help obviate a lot of these issues, I > think. It becomes no longer an implementation question but "just" a > packaging question.
I share Larry's feeling that perhaps the time is right to discuss a PHP library written in PHP once more. The possible advantages are stacking up. Even if we only manage to make this technically working and ship PHP 8 with an empty stub library it would be a major step. It could be extended in subsequent 8.x releases. We should not hijack this thread to discuss this though. Larry, since you got this started again, I guess the honor is yours to write an opening post and start a new thread? ;) Regards, Dik Takken -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
