Re: [RFC] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer

From: Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 13:14:00 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer
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On 06/05/14 11:58, Anatol Belski wrote:

I'm afraid with all those concerns, I will have to vote "no".


Of course that would make me sad. Not only for the work done on that, but
also for the future perspectives and for the quantity of the users who
wish such thing.


Having just been going through an exercise to convert Windows XP sites to something M$ will allow to run without warning messages, the switch to a more modern windows would seem sensible. Except we have been restricted to using 32bit builds of windows for compatibility with the hardware. While parts of PHP already require 64 bit integers which are handled in an even less efficient way, switching to a clean 64 bit integer across all platforms really is essential. Having to manage the difference in the user code base is simply not an option :(

The switch to a cleaner implementation base should allow proper planning for that requirement?

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