Re: Dismantling the lies...

2007/5/21, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>:

I'm moe worried about the performance -

the vast mayority of users will be happy with a more secure system and will like accept a 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1% slowdown in case it is slow.. I sometimes wonder what it is real target of PHP, the masses or a selected neglible group of users that requires extreme craze performance.. If you would have time to run a

benchmark using something like bench.php and maybe some more complicated code, it'd be nice to know the result.

maybe I can check that tomorrow.. but you can also run it by yourself :P However , is in your hands to end with this strange policy, you can either make the 32 bit reference counter, apply this hackaround or state publicitely in the php homepage that PHP4 will not get proper/complete security fixes anymore because you dont want to break binary compatibility to protect corporate interests or simple because it is dead. that would be clearer for users and for all the people/companies that distributes/uses your software.