On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > Nikita Popov doesn’t seem to be a fan of the %% syntax, so it may be subject > to change, though I think it’s the best I’ve heard so far. ;) > Nor am I. Here's a thought though: How about just making / return int when there's no remainder.
Looking at this code, you might think it's inefficent: double dres = a / b; long lres = a / b; if (a % b) { return dres; } else { return lres; } But in fact at -O1, gcc will optimize this (probably clang and others as well) to a single idivq instruction and only do the cvtsi2sdq in the dres case. My point being, we can just make division with an integral result return a result of integer division without altering the syntax or adding a perf hit. -Sara -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php