PHAR was PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:29:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | PHAR was PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 | Groups: | php.internals |
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Yes, I will ask Dmitry to share it with you. There's huge value in
having a standard format which existing tools can already manipulate. It
doesn't have to be tar but IMO it should be something standard.
Andi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Beaver [mailto:greg@chiaraquartet.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 2:08 PM
> To: Andi Gutmans
> Cc: PHP Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
>
> Andi Gutmans wrote:
> >> 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it
by
> >> default)
> >>
> >> 1 0 -1
> >
> > -1 (I'd prefer a standard format which can be manipulated with
> standard
> > tools (also some tests we did with TAR format we got much better
> > performance). In general though the use-case should be clear as I
> don't
> > think Web apps are the real target here))
>
> Care to share how you benchmarked? I found an exponential performance
> improvement when I moved from tar to the current file format.
>
> Greg