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

From: Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 08:46:56 +0000
Subject: Re: [VOTE] [RFC] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer
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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:
> yes. We discussed that patch with Pierre for hours,

one hour at best, and memory consuption impact was minimal when we
bench it using 5.6 as base. It can still be minimal using phpng as we
did not yet did the necessary work there, obviously (remember? you
guys announced it last week).

>  and I always told that
> I afraid about memory consumption overhead.
> my tests showed it clearly
>
> phpng was started as closed project, because we didn't know if we'll able
> to succeed at all (it's not a first attempt) and we liked to move fast.

That's your mistake. We are an opensource projects and ideas must be
(I repeat, must be) discussed early instead of very late. It works for
every other healthy OSS projects and I totally fail to see why Zend
and related cannot do it in a community friendly way.


Cheers,
--
Pierre

@pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org


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