Re: Unicode Implementation

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > 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. yeah, and if that allows us to cleanup PHP 6 for real, then I am not even sure if that is such a bad solution. Ofcourse, the new cool features would go to PHP 6 only, but that's now the same wih 4.4 and 5.1 too anyway. But I don't want to jump too quickly to conclusions about the UNicode speed and BC breakage. All I tested is raw string functions and there is no way that the whole application slows down as much as we saw in the few benchmarks that I run. Besides that, we can probably optimize the string functions somewhat anyway. I'd like to see the speed decrease for real applications too. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org