Re: Unicode Implementation

Derick Rethans wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > >>>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. >> >>Which is why we need the unicode=off switch. I don't think there is any >>way we can make Unicode PHP as fast as non-Unicode PHP. For people who >>need Unicode support, Unicode PHP will be faster and easier than any >>other way for them to get there, but for people who have no need for >>Unicode it would be really nice to maintain the fast non-Unicode mode. > > > What is wrong with PHP 5.1? People don't *have* to upgrade to the > unicode enabled PHP if they don't want to. And it would probably be > "nice" to have that mode for some users, but should that be over our own > back with multiple implementations of everything? The "don't upgrade" argument doesn't work. Unless we commit to having two major versions forever where we will add new features. That is a possibility as well of course. Have 2 trees. Unicode-PHP and non-Unicode-PHP and everything that is not Unicode-related will need to be committed to both. -Rasmus