over time. My general feeling about performance in Pike is also that in many cases these things do not make a huge difference. However, feel
True. Then again, I'm planning on having large Pike farms serving hundreds of Socket.IO clients/browsers. Then performance starts to matter.
These kinds of micro-optimizations are better addressed in the langauge itself. Unless the programmer knows Pike internals they are often not effective.
All that said, if a Pike 8.0 release needs to be done and the code is not deemed sanctioned/stable yet, I'll happily (temporarily) strip it back out again, and then reschedule putting it back in at some later point in time.
Pike 8.0 is the stable branch and releases are attempted once a month. Only put things in 8.0 that you are happy to be released in the state you check them in.