Re: Re: PHP 5.3.0alpha2

hi Steve, On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:26 AM, steve <iamstever@gmail.com> wrote: >> None yet, I still have to create some. Apache may provide some when >> they have began the move to VC9. VC9 Apache builds can be fetched from >> http://apachelounge.com, they are known to work very well. > > Hmm.. that is a good link. I had forgotten about them. Ideally, I'd > like to get a all 64bit setup with Apache <-> FastCGI <-> PHP (nts). Try with IIS7 + FCGI, it is _fast_ :) > PHP is so much slower on windows, though a lot of it has to do with > file handling, a Windows specific slowdown I guess. That's something I really to fix for 5.3.0 or later. That's part of my fresh new job to optimize PHP on Windows. If you have cases where the slowdown is identified (from a scripts point of view), please let me know and I will spend some time to solve them :) >>> and 2) Will there be PECL builds also? >> >> Yes, but directly in pecl.php.net package homepage. > > Does that mean there will be a package of them as before? But for all > the build targets like your new site has? Yes and per PHP branches (5.3 and 6.x). > http://windows.php.net/downloads.php is a huge improvement. > Thank you very much! You are welcome! Very nice to see that it is appreciated, the PHP Windows team has worked hard to get here :-) Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org