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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Garbage collector patch
From: robert@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings)

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:01 -0600, Brian Moon wrote:
> Dmitry Stogov wrote:
> > In general this patch will use more memory.
> > (4 bytes more for each heap allocated zval).
> > 
> > The only advantage is automatic cycle collection, but most web 
> > applications doesn't make cycles.
> 
> Could it be that this code should only be enabled for the CLI sapi? 
> That is where I would want it most.  Only in my cli apps do I run into 
> having to trick the garbage collection into working in my favor.  I 
> usually end having my loop just call a function on each pass.  That 
> seems to help with memory use in PHP currently.

Still comes down the issue of binary compatibility with respect to
modules and such.

Cheers,
Rob.
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