You can switch specialization on/off with define/undefined of the ZEND_VM_SPEC
in the start of zend.vm.h and select execution method by defining ZEND_VM_KIND
in the same place.
+
+Zend Engine II currently includes two executors during the build process, one
+is the specialized version and the other is the old one non-specialized with
+function handlers. By default Zend Engine II uses the specialized one but you
+can switch to the old executor at runtime by calling zend_vm_use_old_executor().