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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:29:11 -0700
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Thread-Topic: PHAR was PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
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To: "Gregory Beaver" <greg@chiaraquartet.net>
Cc: "PHP Developers Mailing List" <internals@lists.php.net>
Subject: PHAR was PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
From: andi@zend.com ("Andi Gutmans")

Yes, I will ask Dmitry to share it with you. There's huge value in
having a standard format which existing tools can already manipulate. It
doesn't have to be tar but IMO it should be something standard.

Andi
=09
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Beaver [mailto:greg@chiaraquartet.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 2:08 PM
> To: Andi Gutmans
> Cc: PHP Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
>=20
> Andi Gutmans wrote:
> >> 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it
by
> >> default)
> >>
> >> 1		0		-1
> >
> > -1 (I'd prefer a standard format which can be manipulated with
> standard
> > tools (also some tests we did with TAR format we got much better
> > performance). In general though the use-case should be clear as I
> don't
> > think Web apps are the real target here))
>=20
> Care to share how you benchmarked?  I found an exponential performance
> improvement when I moved from tar to the current file format.
>=20
> Greg