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		dalore on April 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP: A fractal of bad design It easier to write an optimizer if you don't use eval since the eval code needs an interpreter.

eru on April 10, 2012 [–]

> [...] since the eval code needs an interpreter.

Or a compiler at run-time.

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