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Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 10:59:08 +0200
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To: Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>
Cc: Ulf Wendel <ulf.wendel@phpdoc.de>, PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] on memory usage with the 64bit patch, and
 interpretation of various numbers
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:
> Pierre,
>
> 1) if you reduce size off all language entities to 32-bit, then what this
> patch would provide except of extending string to have 64-bit length?
> but you always talk - it's a side effect (I'm not talking about IS_LONG
> part).

You keep using the same arguments in the loop and I keep answering the
same thing as well. Not sure that will lead us anywhere. Anyway, let
me try a last time.

To be able to have 2^64 (-1 as zend_string use unsigned char) is by
far not the goal but what is very well described in the links we
posted, the answers we gave, etc.

> 2) In phpng we use zend_string* for class, function and other names, so
> extending zend_string would extend all of them anyway.

Besides the fact that phpng is still a huge prototype and many things
may still change in the next months/year, choices being done now does
not mean they are written in stone. And as I said numerous times
already, I did not have the time to analyze phpng more deeper yet
while busy fixing it to make at least build or do not crash on
supported platforms.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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