Hi Anatol,
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Anatol Belski <ab@php.net> wrote:
> thanks for the interest on this. Such an idea existed at the start among
> others, as well as introducing a new zval member for 'int64' besides
> 'long'. The reasons for not doing it (now), also from the todays point
> of view:
>
> - much higher patch complexity
> - with more complexity the risk of not finishing the patch grows
> - worse compatibility with libraries
> - worse compatibility with existing extensions
> - 64 bit processors are widely available
> - well, the slowliness you mention, whereby i've no benchmarks at hand
>
Thank you for your explanations.
These are understandable reasons.
Let's finish current proposal, then we may try to extend int type.
If I finished my todo list for PHP, I'll join your project!
Regards,
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Yasuo Ohgaki
yohgaki@ohgaki.net