Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:52486 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 2580 invoked from network); 20 May 2011 17:01:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 May 2011 17:01:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=johannes@schlueters.de; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=johannes@schlueters.de; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain schlueters.de from 217.114.211.66 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: johannes@schlueters.de X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.114.211.66 ns.km36107.keymachine.de Received: from [217.114.211.66] ([217.114.211.66:37662] helo=config.schlueters.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 2A/74-12578-67E96DD4 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 13:01:43 -0400 Received: from [192.168.2.230] (ppp-93-104-33-24.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.33.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by config.schlueters.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A3BF3725D6; Fri, 20 May 2011 19:01:39 +0200 (CEST) To: Larry Garfield Cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <4DD69AB2.8050005@garfieldtech.com> References: <4DD693BB.7030300@garfieldtech.com> <1305909198.1318.13.camel@guybrush> <4DD69AB2.8050005@garfieldtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 19:01:38 +0200 Message-ID: <1305910898.1318.21.camel@guybrush> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Porting PECL to userspace From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=) On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 11:45 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > If the long term result is that PECL gets more attention and usage as > people realize the advantages of C-based code, even better. I think it's the exact opposite - the less C code we need the better. Developing C code is more work. Maintaining C code is more work. Distributing C code is more complicated. The less this is needed, the faster PHP is, the better for everybody (except C programmers ;-) ) johannes