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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 20:59:47 +0100
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Big Integer Support
From: martin.keckeis1@gmail.com (Martin Keckeis)

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Am 03.02.2015 17:44 schrieb "Andrea Faulds" <ajf@ajf.me>:
>
>
> > On 3 Feb 2015, at 14:49, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On 03/02/15 14:03, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> >> But I don=E2=80=99t consider 0.25MB extra to be such a problem in prac=
tice.
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 an option so I don't have to program in C or something else,
> > and then we look to strip everything that does not need to be present.
>
> Sure, but I don=E2=80=99t think we shouldn=E2=80=99t cripple the language=
 merely for the
sake of really low-end embedded devices. Also, I=E2=80=99m not convinced th=
at the
overhead, at least in terms of file size, is really that big of an issue.
>
> Just for you, I=E2=80=99ve gone and compiled the bigint branch (with LibT=
omMath)
and master on my machine:
>
> $ ls -l php7-*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 ajf  staff  6400408  3 Feb 16:39 php7-bigint
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 ajf  staff  6248920  3 Feb 16:42 php7-master
>
> The difference is a mere 151488 B, or 151 KB.
>
> Is that really so bad?
>
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Please get this mayor feature finally into the core....
In the current century a real 64bit support is not discussable anymore...

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