From: Kyle Katarn <kylekatar...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2025 11:02 AM To: Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> Cc: Tim Düsterhus <t...@bastelstu.be>; PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Add clamp function
> I created https://wiki.php.net/rfc/clamp_v2 (re-using most of the info from > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/clamp). Hey, I’m not against adding such a function, but I noticed that the RFC says > some of which use min <https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.min.php> and > max <https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.max.php> to check the bound, > which is costly and slow when called often What makes them slow? If we can create a significantly faster `clamp`, can we use the same optimizations to improve min and max? BR, Juris