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Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 10:13:39 +0200
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] phpng: Refactored PHP Engine with Big Performance Improvement
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> It is hardly imaginable to release php 6 with strings length still
>> using integer. The memory consumption has been shown to be minimal
>
> Why btw it would be unimaginable? I.e., how many PHP apps really need to
> load strings of 2g+ size? I'm not advocating for not doing this, just
> curious why it is that big of a deal.

Because it is really a bad way to support 64bit architecture. Many
compilers, analyzer or related tools can do a much better job when
modern and clean typing are used, let alone the safe typing (no, using
int for buffer length is not safe nor clean :).

In the last thread about this topic we posted many external links to
documentation or tutorials explaining in details why size_t and co
should be used. If  you are interested to go deeper in this topic,

-- 
Pierre

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