I'm very sure users will not complain if 5.5 is delayed for a few months. Most websites will not be installing 5.5 immediately after it has been released.
My take on this is that we integrate O+ in to core, iron out all the issues and then release a stable 5.5. If O+ will improve the performance of PHP then I'm sure users will love it. __ Raymond On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote: > > > No syntax changes, so regular majority as far as I can tell. > > > > Sent from my mobile > > > > It's not a syntax change, but it is a very, very large engine change. Yes, > it does not touch the Zend engine itself, but it adds a large amount of new > code that is close to the engine. People doing engine changes will need to > modify it too (thus it is quasi part of the engine, even if it lives in a > separate directory). All existing core devs will have to study and > understand the code. All new developers have an additional piece of very > complex code to study before they can start making core changes. > > So no, this is not a syntax change, but it is a engine change with a by > *far* larger impact than any of the other things that have been introduced > in PHP 5.5 (like generators or finally). > > That's why I asked about the type of vote. I'm never quite sure which kind > of vote something requires (maybe we could clarify that paragraph in the > voting RFC a bit?) > > Thanks, Nikita >
