Re: Fw: Bumping PHP to support 8byte integers

>> I would be very worried about making numbers 8 bytes by default, >> unless the CPU supports them natively. There are a lot of consequenses >> involved with something like that. >> >> Assuming a 32 bit register system (x86) integers will no longer fit in >> registers. This changes EVERYTHING, from passing them to functions, to >> how arithatic is performed. Nor am I sure what the state of compilers >> are in all PHP's supported environments, do the compilers handle "long >> long?" > > These are problems indeed, it is just an idea, I don't know what the > performance impacts are. Unfortunately it's quite a work to change it, > otherwise it's a question of trying it and see what the impact is on > typical scripts. Hey, it's open source, go for it dude. Let us know. > > For compilers possibly not supporting "long long", it's about wether > they support 64bit integers. Does someone know how the support of 64bit > integers is in compiler-land? On the 32bit environments, 64bit integers are implemented as long long, unless you want to implement the 64bit manipulation routines yourself (yikes.)