On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi internals! > > Is there any particular reason why we only pass return_value_ptr to > internal functions if they have the ACC_RETURN_REFERENCE flag set? > > Why can't we always provide the retval ptr, even for functions that don't > return by reference? This would allow returning zvals without having to > copy them first (what RETVAL_ZVAL does). > > Motivation for this is the following SO question: > http://stackoverflow.com/q/17844379/385378 > Patch for this change can be found here: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/420 The patch also adds new macros to allow easy use of this feature called RETVAL_ZVAL_FAST/RETURN_ZVAL_FAST (anyone got a better name?) If no one objects I'll merge this sometime soon. Nikita
