Re: PHP 7.2 forked
| From: | Sara Golemon | Date: | Sun, 23 Jul 2017 01:55:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 7.2 forked | ||
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On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's out current state regarding ABI? I've recently done some work on
> making mbstring slightly less abysmally slow, but landed the changes on
> master only, because this included ABI breaks in mbfl/mbstring APIs and
> globals. Is this something I can land in PHP-7.2, or is it closed to
> extension ABI changes?
>
During beta I'm willing to tolerate some ABI breaks for high-value
things, but while mbstring performance is inarguably a good thing,
stability is an even better thing. Anatol mentioned concern about
stability, ergo I'm inclined to defer these improvements till 7.3.
-Sara