>>over time. My general feeling about performance in Pike is also that in >>many cases these things do not make a huge difference. However, feel > >True. Then again, I'm planning on having large Pike farms serving >hundreds of Socket.IO clients/browsers. Then performance starts to matter.
These kinds of micro-optimizations are better addressed in the langauge itself. Unless the programmer knows Pike internals they are often not effective. > >All that said, if a Pike 8.0 release needs to be done and the code is not >deemed sanctioned/stable yet, I'll happily (temporarily) strip it back out >again, and then reschedule putting it back in at some later point in time. Pike 8.0 is the stable branch and releases are attempted once a month. Only put things in 8.0 that you are happy to be released in the state you check them in.