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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:18:59 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] my take on PHP 6, part 2
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 15:35 -0600, Ralph Schindler wrote:
> > And I want to remind about my typical opinion: We should try to require
> > as little extensions as possible and do as many things as possible (in a
> > usable way) in userland. If we spend time on making PHP faster we reduce
> > the need for extensions even more.
> 
> You're assuming the target implementation is trivial, or even possible. 

I know extensions are needed. Still I think PHP is powerful and often
(often != always) fast enough.

johannes