On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Nuno Lopes wrote: > > Yes, I agree with Derickk that it's too soon to document. > > In general the explanation is: > > CALL - Uses function handlers for opcodes. > > SWITCH - Uses switch() statement for opcode dispatchment > > GOTO - Uses goto for opcode dispatchment (threaded opcodes architecture). > > > > GOTO is usually (depends on CPU and compiler) faster than SWITCH which > > tends to be slightly faster than CALL. > > CALL is default because it doesn't take very long to compile as opposed to > > the other two and in general the speed is quite close to the others. > > > Thanks for the explanation, Andi! > > For a regular user, with a standard gcc compiler, should he choose the GOTO > method or CALL?
I would say to just stick to the default until this is benchmarked "for real" with real applications. It's hard to say which one is better at this time. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org -- PHP CVS Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
