Re: Deprecating uniqid()

On 07-05-2020 17:24, Larry Garfield wrote: > Between preloading, PHP 7's improvements, FFI funkiness, and the upcoming JIT, > there's been on and off discussion about moving much of the standard library from C to > "PHP code that is bundled and preloaded automatically." A real "standard > library" in PHP, rather than a bunch of bridged C functions that exist for the legacy reasons > Dan notes above. > > Making that actually a thing would help obviate a lot of these issues, I think. It becomes no > longer an implementation question but "just" a packaging question. I share Larry's feeling that perhaps the time is right to discuss a PHP library written in PHP once more. The possible advantages are stacking up. Even if we only manage to make this technically working and ship PHP 8 with an empty stub library it would be a major step. It could be extended in subsequent 8.x releases. We should not hijack this thread to discuss this though. Larry, since you got this started again, I guess the honor is yours to write an opening post and start a new thread? ;) Regards, Dik Takken