Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: CLI behave like SH or PERL/RUBY/PYTHON?

[Edin Kadribasic]

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 08:26, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> I thought it's obvious choice, but it seems it's not.
>
> Which one you prefer CLI behave like
>
> SH
>
> or
>
> PERL/RUBY/PYTHON

It would perhaps be easier for us to understand if you explained what problem  
you were trying to solve.

Here are some that I can see:

Doing flush after each output operation does carry a performance penalty. The 
following example illustrates it:

php -d implicit_flush=0 -r 'for ($i=0; $i<1000000; $i++) echo $i;' > file

This one executes about twice as fast on my machine compared to php with 
implicit_flush turned on. The example is of course written to emphasise the 
issue.

OTOH, having implicit_flush turned on makes writing interactive command line 
programs easier. Some programs (like pear installer) might even depend on it.

The way cli overwrites some ini settings is a whole different issue and I 
don't thinks we should start mixing the two on this thread.

Edin


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