[PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Bumping PHP to support 8byte integers

2001-09-23 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Hi, For a scripting language, integers should IMHO be bounded by a number that will reasonally not be bound by numbers that will be used in normal scripts. That is currently not the case, 4 bytes are insufficient IMHO. Why not make sure PHP uses 8 bytes at least? Or are there platforms not

[PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Bumping PHP to support 8byte integers

2001-09-23 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote: We should check with the MySQL guys what the performance implications are. I remember they had a contest for the fastest longlong2str() function. I guess this was due to performance problems. We should also at least see if this would cause problems

[PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Bumping PHP to support 8byte integers (fwd)

2001-09-23 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
This subject is being crossposted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] This mail was only on engine2 (let's keep everyting at least on phpdev): -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:41:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stig

[PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Bumping PHP to support 8byte integers

2001-09-23 Thread Stig Sæther Bakken
[Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED]] In PHP performance is IMHO a bit less important than in DBMS's. If you're after performance you shouldn't use a scripting language anyway :). Sorry for starting, but this is just nonsense. First of all, today PHP is a scripting language only by

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Bumping PHP to support 8byte integers

2001-09-23 Thread mlwmohawk
On 23 Sep 2001, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote: [Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED]] In PHP performance is IMHO a bit less important than in DBMS's. If you're after performance you shouldn't use a scripting language anyway :). Sorry for starting, but this is just nonsense. First of