From a680f4f2be2ae8f6bf40bf9fcb3fac93b60b0b33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Jones <christopher.jones@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:53:12 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Link to the fast_zpp RFC

---
 README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API b/README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API
index c725879fc4d..f65c19a7239 100644
--- a/README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API
+++ b/README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API
@@ -1,11 +1,21 @@
-New parameter parsing functions
-===============================
+Fast Parameter Parsing API
+==========================
 
-It should be easier to parse input parameters to an extension function.
-Hence, borrowing from Python's example, there are now a set of functions
-that given the string of type specifiers, can parse the input parameters
-and store the results in the user specified variables. This avoids most
-of the IS_* checks and convert_to_* conversions. The functions also
+In PHP 7, a "Fast Parameter Parsing API" was introduced.  See
+
+  https://wiki.php.net/rfc/fast_zpp
+
+This API uses inlining to improve applications performance compared
+with the zend_parse_parameters() function described below.
+
+
+Parameter parsing functions
+===========================
+
+Borrowing from Python's example, there is a set of functions that
+given the string of type specifiers, can parse the input parameters
+and store the results in the user specified variables. This avoids
+using IS_* checks and convert_to_* conversions. The functions also
 check for the appropriate number of parameters, and try to output
 meaningful error messages.