On 5/21/11, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> What platform was that on? GCC already inlines its builtins by >> default (even at -O0). I.e., the abs() generates the following code: > > As I understand, Sebastian wasn't talking about inlining C abs(). He was > talking about converting PHP abs() (which is a function call right now > with all overhead that this implies) to an opcode, which makes it > somewhat cheaper to call, since the engine will be handling it without > the overhead associated with PHP function call.
That probably makes sense. The original diff had optimizations using x86 assembler; this mislead me. (-; -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
