Re: RFC: unicode.semantics: runtime or not?

We've done the per-request thing already and we know some, and possibly not all, of the implementation pains that come with it. I am looking forward to the results of your evaluation, but please do it sooner than later -- I do want to get a preview release out before the end of the year. -Andrei On Sep 6, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Andi Gutmans wrote:

As Andrei knows, I believe that not allowing to tune this on a per virtual host basis, is going to make life very hard for our users. A huge part of our users are hosting providers, or companies running multiple applications on the same machine. Probably a majority do not own dedicated boxes. This kind of limitation is going to not only slow down PHP 6 adoption, but I think it may also significantly impair PHP as a hosting friendly solution, and therefore, we could actually see a loss in overall PHP market share. I suggest to first make the theoreticaly decision that we prefer to support this on a per-request if it's feasible. When I say feasible it means with some but minimal pain. If it becomes a disaster we should re-evaluate. I'll try and spend the next week to try and see what the issues are and whether we can resolve them in an acceptable way. Andi