Re: A call for help (urgent)

On May 17, 2014 5:38 PM, "Zeev Suraski" <zeev@zend.com> wrote: > > On 17 במאי 2014, at 17:32, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > > > That has nothing to do with the fact applying this patch is morally wrong, > and also may or may not be true. > Morally wrong? But doing months of Dev in secret while knowing that we work on the same area is morally awesome? > > Unlike phpng, this is a tactical patch that while changes a lot of code, is > mostly about "dirty work" than research. A hack over a hack remains a hack. With all respects to the authors and what they achieved so far. > Spinning phpng's work as something evil is as ridiculous as it is wrong. Who said that? > Sabotaging it because of it is even worse. Excuse me? > You don't seem to realize what's going on here. It won't delay it, it'll > greatly slow it down, and given phpng is all about performance - it negates This is again wrong. It is not slow but a small memory usage increase. It is even actually faster with the 64bit patch in many cases (based on 5.6+patch, phpng+patch coming as soon as I am done with making it portable).. > For the current PHP it yields an 8% memory increase. Wrong again. We show 4% increase.