Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:17921 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 50410 invoked by uid 1010); 12 Aug 2005 21:16:13 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 50395 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2005 21:16:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Aug 2005 21:16:13 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 69.12.155.130 69-12-155-130.dsl.static.sonic.net Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([69.12.155.130:3432] helo=pigeon.alphaweb.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 76/E5-33075-D911DF24 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:16:13 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=peiscg33m) by pigeon.alphaweb.net with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 1E3gH9-0005VM-00 for internals@lists.php.net; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:37:11 -0700 Message-ID: <00f301c59f83$10201f80$5c8be5a9@ohr.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: "Sara Golemon" To: References: <42FCE0E4.604@lerdorf.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:16:10 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Subject: Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist From: pollita@php.net ("Sara Golemon") > How about doubling integer precision to 64 bits and float/double precision > to 128 bits? It's in line with 64 bit CPU capabilities, and personally, I > wouldn't mind it a bit if it would make numerical processing in PHP slower > on 32 bit systems. I think the advantages are much too great for that. If > this is ever gonna happen, I think PHP6 would be great timing for it. > If there were such a type as 'zend_long' used universally that might be at least possible (even configurable as a compile-time switch), but as it is *EVERYTHING* that touches a zval expects a long. On 32bit platforms that's a 32-bit number and there's no trivial way to change that. Athlon64s and Opterons are cheap nowadays anyway. I picked up a MB/CPU combo at Fry's last week for like $200. -Sara