On Mar 4, 2015 9:18 AM, "Rowan Collins" <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3 March 2015 20:08:45 GMT, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > >The piece of the jigsaw I am missing is at which point does it become > >better to create a new extension for a complex object rather than > >simply > >writing a set of PHP classes? > > A good question, wrappers can achieve a lot here. An extension has two key benefits that I can think of: performance (indirection through userland code will always be slower, and for frequent operations like string and array handling, it could add up to something significant) and convenience (thanks to Composer, dependency management is pretty simple, but nothing beats functionality built right into the language distribution).
For a php developer point of view, for someone not knowing c or php internals APIs, I highly recommend https://github.com/phalcon/zephir >
