Re: Some more plane hacking...
| From: | Jon Parise | Date: | Thu, 16 Aug 2001 05:57:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Some more plane hacking... | ||
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:07:58PM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> Are you saying there should always be user-space implementations that
> match the C version just in case somebody doesn't want to run the C
> version? I don't really see the reasoning for this. If it is easy to
> compile and install the C version, why duplicate the work?
I think the way to go is to encourage developers to write initial
PHP implementations of their code first. Once they've matured
abd stabilized, C versions are a logical next step for
performance improvements.
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