On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Anthony Ferrara <ircmax...@gmail.com> wrote: > Laruence, > >> I missed one thing here, it should be: >> why we need such feature that only a few people need it, and will >> also make reset people confused, and most of other language doesn't >> have it, and using it will make things a little mess(and low >> performance vs pure interface)? > > > I've proven twice in this thread, and on the RFC itself that performance is > equal to or **faster** than the current interface hints. Why does this > subject keep coming up? Do you not believe my numbers? Run them yourself. > The branch is available. And if you'd like, I can prove to you logically why > performance is going to be better in cases where you don't implement > interfaces but use Structural hinting. oh oh, take it easy,
so are you saying, that check every method's signature of a class is *faster* than just check interface? I don't need to run the test at all > > If we're going to ignore the discussion and keep bringing issues that were > put to bed back up again, there's no point continuing here. Because "OMGS, > ITS SLOW" is the antithesis of a useful discussion once it's been shown that > it's not... I didn't, did I? did I said *MOGS*? I really hope you could mind you temper here(if you was angry), thanks I was just saying, it is slow, but it's not my main reason to aginst it. > > As far as "only a few people need it", last I checked, the Drupal community > was not 'only a few people' (27k developers in the Drupal community alone), > and several (at least 5) of their core contributors have expressed this > feature solving some very significant problems they have been experiencing. So, 27k developers all think it's useful? > > But if you *really* think this feature is needed by only a few people, and > that I'm blowing it way out of proportion (or inventing a problem), I'll > retract this proposal. you don't need to retract this proposal just because I object it, I am just saying my opinion here. > > I would just highly recommend that you think about the assertion that you're > making that "you know the community's needs" (to an 80% degree at least). > That's a very significant thing to say, and I hope that you are willing to > take the responsibility for that as well... Personally, I can only speak for > the side of the community that I interact with regularly, which is by far > not the entire community... ok, I am sorry about the 80%, it's just a 80:20 metaphor. I appreciate your effort to bring this here, and argu for it. and I was just doing the same thing, to argu it, and put my voice out. thanks > > Anthony -- Laruence Xinchen Hui http://www.laruence.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
