Just in time ...

.. well ... more or less :-)

Indeed, this week, PHP main developers had decided to push (one more time would say some "old timers") a JIT compiler solution, based on DynASM from luajit, which will be present at least for the future 8.x version maybe for 7.4 (as experimental feature). All use cases might not benefit it for sure (and again it is mainly for the x86 architectures anyway) but that might push some devops to consider php to other tasks/contexts than just the dear Web. Here, if you are interested, is the Merge Request still in review when I write for further technical details, I might say that something worthy to look at even though it is "concealed", for now, into the opcache module.

Other than that, these last days I did a sort of indirect contribution for LMMS, more specifically its custom memory allocator named rpmalloc. Just improved a bit the FreeBSD/OpenBSD support (super page support for the former) but alone this project is pretty interesting if, like me, you re used to play with memory management runtime replacements like jemalloc and so on ... To finish I was pleasantly surprised one of my old patches for OpenBSD had been merged (I almost forgot must have been early last year or before :-)) ... just to get the name of the thread ; at least to be equal to NetBSD for example.