Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:38:03 -0700, Andrei Zmievski <andrei@gravitonic.com> wrote: > Yes, backporting major features from PHP 6 to 5 will slow down PHP 6 > adoption, and I'd like to avoid it if possible. > > There is a way to run two engines side by side, by the way: in > separate instances of Apache. It's really not that complicated. Isn't there some evidence of the ability to run two engines side-by-side with only one instance of Apache; thereby eliminating some overhead? Wouldn't that actually be easier? I could have sworn I saw that somewhere. > > -Andrei > > > On Jul 6, 2007, at 6:13 AM, Stefan Priebsch wrote: > >> IMHO backporting a lot of features to PHP4 is a major reasons for the >> slow PHP5 adoption. Basically, it seems that everybody who is not >> using >> OOP feels that PHP4 is fine for them. >> >> I'd say committing to backporting stuff from PHP6 to PHP5 will yield a >> similar situation: very slow or no PHP6 adoption. >> >> BTW, can't the unicode switch be done at compile time? So one can >> compile PHP6 Unicode and PHP6 non-Unicode. Then if there is a >> clever way >> of running both engines in parallel, there should be no performance >> impact inside the non-unicode engine. Since there is both versions of >> the engine (that can maybe even selected by a certain statement in the >> main PHP file of the application), unicode and non-unicode users are >> happy. And there is only one version of PHP in the market, to >> conquer it >> all. >> >> There must be a reason to upgrade to a new PHP version (usually >> features, maybe performance increase etc.). But there also must be no >> reason not to upgrade. But you all know this, it has been said before. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Stefan >> >> -- >>> e-novative> - We make IT work for you. >> >> e-novative GmbH - HR: Amtsgericht München HRB 139407 >> Sitz: Wolfratshausen - GF: Dipl. Inform. Stefan Priebsch >> >> http://www.e-novative.de >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// Service provided by hitOmeter.NET internet messaging! .