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agumonkey on Sept 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP gets Generators

I suspected a weird kind of type checking. It's so dynamic they're hitting walls whenever they want to improve things I guess.

One PhD students tried to make a PHP compiler, hair loss ensued.

pbiggar on Sept 2, 2012 [–]

I assure you, I still have all of my hair ;)

agumonkey on Sept 3, 2012 | [–]

I meant mine obviously ;)

For the curious, here's the talk (1 hour) about ahead of time compilation of PHP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKySEUrP7LA

pbiggar on Sept 3, 2012 | | [–]

What's the link to your research?

agumonkey on Sept 3, 2012 | | [–]

I was trying to be funny, insinuating your talk was so extensive that my hair fell.

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