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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP footprint and sharing code among SAPI binaries
From: tony@daylessday.org (Antony Dovgal)

On 26.02.2008 23:48, Eugene San wrote:
> 1) Is there any reason to link all PHP SAPI modules statically with all 
> PHP objects?

In most cases you need only one SAPI, so there is no reason to share something.

> 2) Is it possible to extract all shared functionality to shared object 
> and links all SAPI modules against it?

That's how it works on Win32. 
And I have to mention that I've seen LOTS of bug reports from people who forget 
to update php(4|5)ts.dll when upgrading PHP.

> 3) Next issue is XML with DOM support, we where using LIBXML2 but that 
> costs ~2.5MB are there there options for supporting that?

What costs 2.5MB?
Dynamic linking against libxml2.so?
 
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Antony Dovgal