Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19488 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 32877 invoked by uid 1010); 7 Oct 2005 21:05:17 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 32862 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2005 21:05:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Oct 2005 21:05:17 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([82.94.239.5:51399] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id AF/C2-54476-B03E6434 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:05:16 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j97L59ZR026413; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 23:05:09 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j97L564X026402; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 23:05:07 +0200 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 23:05:07 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Rasmus Lerdorf cc: PHP Developers Mailing List In-Reply-To: <4346E0C5.3090001@lerdorf.com> Message-ID: References: <99dd4f75f4ceebfe1c980cf439e97416@gravitonic.com> <4346E00A.8020504@prohost.org> <4346E0C5.3090001@lerdorf.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jdi-ict.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unicode Implementation From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > We definitely need to look at that since if upgrading to 6.0 means a 3x > > slower operation very few people will even consider upgrading. > > Which is why we need the unicode=off switch. I don't think there is any > way we can make Unicode PHP as fast as non-Unicode PHP. For people who > need Unicode support, Unicode PHP will be faster and easier than any > other way for them to get there, but for people who have no need for > Unicode it would be really nice to maintain the fast non-Unicode mode. What is wrong with PHP 5.1? People don't *have* to upgrade to the unicode enabled PHP if they don't want to. And it would probably be "nice" to have that mode for some users, but should that be over our own back with multiple implementations of everything? regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org