Written by Nikita Popov
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on Oct. 20, 2021
PHP allows using a class before its declaration in the same file – sometimes. Internally we call this “early binding”. However, the precise behavior is rather arcane and not well documented. After reading this blog post, you’ll probably appreciate why bug reports related to early binding go right…
Written by Nikita Popov
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on Oct. 13, 2021
The opcache PHP extension implements various functionality to speed up PHP in a transparent manner. As the name indicates, its origin and primary purpose is opcode caching, but nowadays it also contains an optimizer and just-in-time compiler. However, this blog post will focus only on the opcode ca…
Written by Nikita Popov
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on Jun. 2, 2021
On the whole, LLVM has a well-designed intermediate representation (IR), which is specified in the language reference. However, there are a number of areas where design mistakes have been made. And while the LLVM project is generally open to addressing such issues, mistakes in core IR design tend…
Written by Nikita Popov
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on Jun. 2, 2021
On the whole, LLVM has a well-designed intermediate representation (IR), which is specified in the language reference. However, there are a number of areas where design mistakes have been made. And while the LLVM project is generally open to addressing such issues, mistakes in core IR design tend…
Written by Nikita Popov
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on May. 10, 2020
The front page of the LLVM website proudly claims that: Clang is an “LLVM native” C/C++/Objective-C compiler, which aims to deliver amazingly fast compiles […] I’m not sure whether this has been true in the past, but it certainly isn’t true now. Each LLVM release is a few percent slower than the la…
Written by Nikita Popov
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on May. 10, 2020
The front page of the LLVM website proudly claims that: Clang is an “LLVM native” C/C++/Objective-C compiler, which aims to deliver amazingly fast compiles […] I’m not sure whether this has been true in the past, but it certainly isn’t true now. Each LLVM release is a few percent slower than the la…