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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:23:26 -0700
To: "Matt W" <php_lists@realplain.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] zend_u_strtod is slow - possible fix
From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski)

You'd have to ask Derick. He's the one who added it. :) Note that 
zend_string_to_double() is not actually used anywhere.

-A

On Aug 2, 2006, at 2:12 AM, Matt W wrote:

> Hi Andrei,
>
> Thanks for your reply.  Yeah, obviously it'll still be slower than 
> with an
> already-binary string. :-)  But I figured it's better than before, 
> until
> something better comes along...
>
> Unless there were other plans to rewrite it, is there a way to easily 
> (for
> me! :-)) have it do all the conversion?  I've been thinking about the
> different string-to-number functions (will send a separate e-mail)...  
> Is
> there a reason the regular zend_strtod() code is so complicated?
> zend_string_to_double(), for example, is really simple (and works the 
> same I
> assume, except for not handling negatives or leading whitespace).  Can
> zend_u_strtod() be implemented with the same methods 
> zend_string_to_double()
> uses?