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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 14:43:43 +0000
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Zero-fill right shift.
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

On 3 February 2015 at 14:36, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> I don=E2=80=99t know where you got that idea. The binary ops are consiste=
nt - they aren=E2=80=99t constrained by register size like in previous PHP =
versions, but they=E2=80=99re still completely consistent.
>

php -r 'var_dump(1 << 65);'
int(2)

Rotate left gets broken.

> It=E2=80=99s slower, yes, but that hardly matters. If people care so much=
 about performance, why use PHP?
>

If people didn't care about performance, we wouldn't have phpng, or
any of the other work people have done to make the engine faster.

Sometimes you have to make the most of what you have available.