On 05/17/2014 08:27 PM, Nikita Popov wrote:
> So, that's my opinion on how we should proceed with the 64bit patch. I very
> much hope that we can reach some consensus about this.
Thanks for pulling this together Nikita. People have been asking me
about this issue and this was exactly what I told them we would likely
end up with as it is a sane and reasonable implementation of the two
efforts. I would guess an rfc vote between the alternatives, as I see
them, would favour this one by a wide margin.
As for >4G strings, it does seem unlikely, on current hardware, that you
would stick that much data in a variable. You might be able to get one
in there, but if you then do anything with it, the tmp copy is going to
make things fall over pretty quickly. But who knows in 4-5 years maybe
having a TB of ram in servers will be the norm, IO channels have become
much wider and we are manipulating 4K video files directly in PHP so
perhaps you can make a future-proofing argument there.
-Rasmus