On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 17:11 +0000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > For what it's worth the changes we've made in the Zend Engine around > performance and memory use could warrant a major version. Every major > version of PHP in the past has been driven foremost by major engine > overhauls.
Yes, larger changes to the engine changed the major number. But all of them had a big effect. This is "only" performance. No functionality. 90% of the users won't notice it. Whereas everbody oticed the change from3 to 4 or the new object model in 5. Changing the major number has two big effects: a) marketing b) more fear for doing the upgrade. I value b) as the more relevant factor to monitor. johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
