Re: Unicode Implementation

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 00:55:45 -0400 (EDT), in php.internals adam@trachtenberg.com (Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg) wrote: >We seem to be under the impression that the Unicode speed penalty will >be so harsh that a Unicode-only PHP 6 will be too slow for >use. However, we don't know that for sure. Yes, it will be slower, >when you look at the whole request cycle, it may not matter. I agree - the speed penalty comparsion seems mostly related to php scripts that does nothing else than handling strings. I recall the old discussions (echo vs print vs ?>...<? ) using similar benchmarks. It is true when you compare the specific functions/language constructs the relative difference in speed is apparent. But compared to a bunch of other functions that you'll usually use (database connections, file access, data sorting, etc.) I imagine that the speed penalty is simply marginal. Just my 0.02 \x20B1. -- - Peter Brodersen