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by headius 4213 days ago
Am I the only one that considers this disgusting? If the GC is so bad that it causes 2-10x slower operation in this use case, then it's a bad GC. I mean really, really bad. Short-lived objects in any modern GC should be swept away trivially without a lot of overhead. Of course we're talking about PHP here, so perhaps it's redundant to say something about it sucks, but jesus...runtimes that require hacks like this should be taken out back and shot.