Re: [RFC] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer
| From: | Dmitry Stogov | Date: | Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:12:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer | ||
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Hi Derick,
It would be a significant performance degradation :)
Just imagine how to implement 64-bit multiplication and division on 32-bit
CPU.
Thanks. Dmitry.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Dmitry Stogov wrote:
>
> > Of course, we are not going to drop 32-bit support :)
> > This patch affects only PHP on 64-bit systems.
>
> Really? I thought it would also make PHP's int type 64-bit even on
> 32-bit platforms.
>
> cheers,
> Derick
>