Re: [RFC] Internal operator overloading and GMP improvements

From: Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 18:56:44 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Internal operator overloading and GMP improvements
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On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Antony Dovgal <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2013-05-12 19:25, Nikita Popov wrote:
>>
>> Hi internals!
>>
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_overloading_gmp
>>
>> This RFC proposes to add operator overloading for INTERNAL classes.
>> Furthermore it exemplarily implements the new API for GMP.
>
>
> IMO the proposal B is quite reasonable change, but the proposal A (i.e. the
> operator overloading part) is definitely an overkill.
> A simple benchmark should demonstrate that using GMP for basic arithmetic
> would kill performance in quite a brutal way.

Right, the difficulty here is to use it for large numbers only. It
reduces the impact for standard ranges but do not totally suppress it.

Cheers,
--
Pierre

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