Re: *crash* on try to find out how many nesting levelsareallowed

Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > SC>> somehow recognizable, or it can simply timeout. Allowing it to crash > SC>> because 'infinite recursion leads to crash' is pathetic. If it crashes, > SC>> it can be fixed. > > Just let me to get to your box with that lovely hammer of mine, and we'll > talk about "if it crashes, it can be fixed" ;) That's why I keep my address private! ;-) > Seriously, there are conditions of which PHP is unable to recover as of > now. Two known are "no memory" and "no stack" conditions. There's no > good > way on Unix to gracefully recover from this condition, without generally > slowing down execution. If you know such a way, you are welcome to propose > it. But seriously, HOW MUCH would it slow down? Are we talking 5% or 50%? Considering the speed increase php4 has over php3, I wouldn't mind loosing 5% to provide additional stability. If it were significantly higher, then rather than saying something like 'dont do it and it wont crash', provide the explanation that protecting against such a crash would slow down php so much that it isn't worth it, so you just have to pay attention to your scripting. > -- > Stanislav Malyshev stas@zend.com > +972-3-6139665