farlee

My advice to other OSS project maintainers - unless you are paid to do so in a 9 to 5 job, just walk away. It's not worth the aggravation. I just woke up to the fact that the majority of my self-entitled users were working for multi-billion dollar firms and they were not contributing a line of code or stitch of documentation. With a handful of exceptions, you can't make a living off of open source alone. Patreon and OpenCollective is a great way to make coffee money.

I respect that the PHP maintainers recognize that it is not enough to accept a working JIT implementation - they have to understand and maintain it. Speed is one thing, but long term maintenance is more important.

> use DynAsm (developed for LuaJIT project) for generation of native code

But at the very least, this exercise will ensure that DynAsm will be actively used by a few people. So even if this PHP JIT effort fails, the underlying JIT technology will be more widely understood and hopefully better documented for other projects.