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Re:Phan by Etsy – A Static Analyzer for PHP 7+ by merlincorey on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:04PM (#10697680)
> I'm not sure what SIMD refers to. Can you clarify that?

With a name like "asm" that comes as a surprise... Single Instruction Multiple Data[0] refers to low level processor instructions that are able to work across a range of data, e.g. video cards working on changing the values in a framebuffer with one instruction mapping across an entire buffer in parallel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD

Re:Phan by Etsy – A Static Analyzer for PHP 7+ by giaour on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:40PM (#10697950)
That doesn't clarify what the OP meant. PHP does not allow you to issue processor instructions directly.
Re:Phan by Etsy – A Static Analyzer for PHP 7+ by psaintla on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:25PM (#10698257)
I'm going to take a crazy leap here based on the commits. asm might not stand for what you think.