Re: Garbage collector patch

From: Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:00:18 +0000
Subject: Re: Garbage collector patch
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2007/12/3, Ilia Alshanetsky <ilia@prohost.org>: > I think the patch does have a value, yes, it does, what worries me is the introduction of yet another non-sense ini setting that modified the very engine behaviuor.. I think we all agree that there are way too many of those do we ? . My > suggestion is that we make this feature a compile time flag. My suggestion is not to add any compile time flag, either provide it or dont. > and people who feel that their applications warrant a > garbage collector can enable it for their install and at the same time > those who don't (general case) have no penalties of having it in place. People more commonly uses PHP from distributors, in binary form.. they dont usually decide what is enabled or not, so you have to either reccommend this feature or mark it clearly as untrusted, experimental. such switches only add more complexity, confusion for users and addtional trouble to distributors. my 2CLP. -- http://www.kissofjudas.net/

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