Re: Rethinking 64bit sizes and PHP-NG

On 05/17/2014 08:27 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: > So, that's my opinion on how we should proceed with the 64bit patch. I very > much hope that we can reach some consensus about this. Thanks for pulling this together Nikita. People have been asking me about this issue and this was exactly what I told them we would likely end up with as it is a sane and reasonable implementation of the two efforts. I would guess an rfc vote between the alternatives, as I see them, would favour this one by a wide margin. As for >4G strings, it does seem unlikely, on current hardware, that you would stick that much data in a variable. You might be able to get one in there, but if you then do anything with it, the tmp copy is going to make things fall over pretty quickly. But who knows in 4-5 years maybe having a TB of ram in servers will be the norm, IO channels have become much wider and we are manipulating 4K video files directly in PHP so perhaps you can make a future-proofing argument there. -Rasmus