Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19606 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 66288 invoked by uid 1010); 13 Oct 2005 21:48:57 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 66273 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2005 21:48:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Oct 2005 21:48:57 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 84.56.23.148 dslb-084-056-023-148.pools.arcor-ip.net Received: from ([84.56.23.148:9481] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 88/F7-04211-946DE434 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:48:57 -0400 To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:48:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20051013234854.416fa7d7@localhost.localdomain> References: <99dd4f75f4ceebfe1c980cf439e97416@gravitonic.com> <4346E00A.8020504@prohost.org> <4346E0C5.3090001@lerdorf.com> <20051013183935.70243ae8@localhost.localdomain> X-Newsreader: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.14 (GTK+ 2.6.10; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Posted-By: 84.56.23.148 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unicode Implementation From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre) On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:02:09 +0200 oliver.graetz@arcor.de (Oliver Grätz) wrote: > Pierre schrieb: > > > This argument is irrelevant. You only hide the possible lack of > > scalability behind hardware improvements. > > A "lack of scalability" will only occur if the Unicode features > create a more than linear performance drop which I suppose won't > happen. Even if it becomes three times slower this is NO problem to > think about when deciding for or against a side-by-side > unicode/non-unicode environment since this is very well "scalable". You miss my point. Saying that in one year hardware will run a few Mhz faster is plain stupid. You only delay the point of failure. --Pierre