Re: Unicode Implementation
| From: | Ilia Alshanetsky | Date: | Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:52:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Unicode Implementation | ||
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Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>> - we have a bit less BC.
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> "A bit less"? I'd say it would break BC in a major way. People who want
> to upgrade to PHP 6 would need to rewrite a lot of their scripts.
I think most large applications will be in this boat anyway, we may as
well do it properly once, so we don't end up hacks on top of hacks just
for the sake of BC.
> We can try switching to _UNSAFE versions of the iterator macros - they
> assume well-formed UTF-16, so they will be somewhat faster.
We definitely need to look at that since if upgrading to 6.0 means a 3x
slower operation very few people will even consider upgrading.
Ilia