Re: Re: Compatibility problems with PHP 5

Hello Stanislav, Thursday, November 27, 2003, 3:32:25 PM, you wrote: MB>>> It respects the refcoutning while destructing the zvals. > I don't exacetly understand _how_ it respects them so that this solves the > circular dependency problem. In fact, in the patch in the URL you have > sent I don't even see one call to destructor. Also, does you patch take > into account the fact that a number of zvals can refer to the same object? When a zval is an object and it gets freed the destructor is called. MB>>> Controlling life time of objects and hence you could also control MB>>> lifetime of resources if you use php5 new database systems which use MB>>> objects natively or if you use wrapper objects. So with destructors MB>>> you can free them as soon as possible (automagically) without any MB>>> further time consumpting tests. So you will also get lower memory > I don't see how you can do that. Only place when you don't have to call > dtor manually and can be sure the object is destroyed is the end of the > request. But by the end of the request all resources are freed anyway, so > you don't need dtors to free them. Well i can test my scripts - and i do understand refcounting and php. So at least an expirienced programmer can take advantage. -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net