Re: Porting PECL to userspace

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/5/20 Brian Moon <brian@moonspot.net>: >>> I think it's the exact opposite - the less C code we need the better. >>> Developing C code is more work. Maintaining C code is more work. >>> Distributing C code is more complicated. The less this is needed, the >>> faster PHP is, the better for everybody (except C programmers ;-) ) >> >> I was with you until "The less this is needed, the faster PHP is, the better >> for everybody". PHP is just a glue language on top of an awesome library of >> C. If more people would embrace that and quit including 1000 classes to show >> a simple web page then it would be better for everybody. >> > > Indeed. But how awesome would it be if you could talk to a c library > using userspace PHP? You can, it is possible via pecl's ffi. One has to give it some love. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org