Re: --enable-zend-multibyte

From:	Dmitry Stogov	Date:	Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:16:28 +0000
Subject:	Re: --enable-zend-multibyte
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Derick Rethans wrote:

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Christopher Jones wrote:
On 11/18/2010 06:26 AM, Dmitry Stogov wrote:
The proposed patch allows compiling PHP with --enable-zend-multibyte and then enable or disable multibyte support at run-time using zend.multibyte=0/1 in php.ini. As result the single binary will be able to support multibyte encodings and run without zend-multibyte overhead dependent on configuration. The patch doesn't affect PHP compiled without --enable-zend-multibyte. I'm going to commit it into trunk before alpha. Any objections?
If the overhead of zend.multibyte=0 is negligable, then why not remove remove the configure option altogether? This would reduce the complexity of the implementation and simplify building & maintenance. Why have two interdependent ways to get the same outcome if one way will do?
Because it has a dependency on mbstring.

Actually, it doesn't have compile-time dependencies, so it's probably make sense to remove --enable-zend-multibyte completely. Thanks. Dmitry.

Derick