What's smaller, type checking with parameter type hinting, or manually using is_int, is_string, etc?
Smaller from what POV? Developer-side, it's the same - one check there, one check here. Execution-side, since is_integer is a function and not operation, it's a tiny bit slower, but as I said, if you got to this level, you are looking for optimization in a wrong place.
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