Hi
On 2026-08-25 17:34, Larry Garfield wrote:
And it would also give us a target to benchmark against to see if
putting it in C really has a performance benefit.
I believe performance should not be a factor in deciding what should be
part of the stdlib and what should not: Performance is a moving target
and what might be true today might no longer be true tomorrow - with
folks generally having wildly incorrect assumptions about what actually
is “slow”.
Once we add something to the stdlib we need to maintain it for the next
15+ years. (Broad) usefulness and good API design must be the deciding
factors for whether something should be in the stdlib or not [1].
With PIE it has become easier than ever to build a custom extension for
one’s personal use cases to improve performance there.
Best regards
Tim Düsterhus
[1] It is debatable if the non-required bundled extensions are part of
the stdlib or not, for some of the more obscure ones like ext/tidy there
likely is a little more leeway in “just do it”.
