2015-02-22 14:37 GMT-04:00 Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com>:

> I think it's fair to say that Dmitry - who led the PHPNG effort - cares *a
> lot* performance.  I'm sure you'd agree.  I tend to think that I also care
> a lot about performance, and so does Xinchen.  We all spent substantial
> parts of our lives working to speed PHP up.  It's not whether we think
> performance is important - it is (although we do believe we should build
> optimizers for languages, more so than languages for optimizers).  It's
> just that we all fail to see how the flavor of STH can have any meaningful
> influence on performance.
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> Zeev
>

Thanks for the insightful response! Now it would be nice to also see the
opinions of the other camp.

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