Re: A call for help (urgent)
On May 17, 2014 5:38 PM, "Zeev Suraski" <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
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> On 17 במאי 2014, at 17:32, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
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> That has nothing to do with the fact applying this patch is morally wrong,
> and also may or may not be true.
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Morally wrong? But doing months of Dev in secret while knowing that we work
on the same area is morally awesome?
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> Unlike phpng, this is a tactical patch that while changes a lot of code,
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> mostly about "dirty work" than research.
A hack over a hack remains a hack. With all respects to the authors and
what they achieved so far.
> Spinning phpng's work as something evil is as ridiculous as it is wrong.
Who said that?
> Sabotaging it because of it is even worse.
Excuse me?
> You don't seem to realize what's going on here. It won't delay it, it'll
> greatly slow it down, and given phpng is all about performance - it
negates
This is again wrong. It is not slow but a small memory usage increase. It
is even actually faster with the 64bit patch in many cases (based on
5.6+patch, phpng+patch coming as soon as I am done with making it portable)..
> For the current PHP it yields an 8% memory increase.
Wrong again. We show 4% increase.
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