On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 5:47 PM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 14.02.2019 at 12:56, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:26 AM Joe Watkins <krak...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> The ZTS build is very commonly used in Windows today > > > > Any idea why? > > windows.php.net: > > | With Apache you have to use the Thread Safe (TS) versions of PHP. > That's a great explanation (wasn't aware of it!), but that's actually not true, it's much better to use FastCGI instead (faster and definitely a lot more reliable and robust). Looks like XAMPP might be under the same false impression. Might be a good opportunity in PHP 8 to change these not-so-healthy defaults. After all, ISAPI used to be super popular too (under Windows) until worked with Microsoft to bring FastCGI into IIS. Zeev