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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 20:18:00 +0100
To: "Lester Caine" <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Big Integer Support
From: anatol.php@belski.net ("Anatol Belski")

Hi Lester,

On Tue, February 3, 2015 15:49, Lester Caine wrote:
> On 03/02/15 14:03, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>
>> But I don’t consider 0.25MB extra to be such a problem in practice. The
>>
> PHP binary is already huge, and every system running PHP will have ample
> memory.
>
> Yes one approach is 'computers are getting faster with lots of memory'
> ... and for servers this is not a problem ...    they will more than
> likely be 64bit anyway! But for smaller embedded devices php *IS* becoming
I would like to ask, what those embedded devices are.

Also I would like to state that it's hard to part the concerns you
express. Arbitrary integer math is the daily bread of any modern
programming language. Furthermore, from the test done so far there's no
much visible impact to the present operation.

Regards

Anatol