Re: Some more plane hacking...

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > What is the overall feeling here about converting some of this stuff to C? > My personal feeling is that is not a good idea. My points: - The work needed to build a valid C extension in the terms of bug haunting, cross platform, PHP/Zend internals knowledge, speed of coding, etc is too big. - The number of contributors will be reduced draticaly. Don't know what's the general C knowledge here, but I know that mines for example is not valid for a seriuos work. - Moving PHP PEAR classes from one server to another is a trivial work, C classes shouldn't. - Most of PHP users haven't enought tools and knowledge to compile a external C extensions. - The only reason I see where a C extension makes sense is the speed, but the speed in the most of the php develpments isn't a real worry compared to maintainability or speed of development. If you want to write a C extension for a class put it in the class package space as another nice choice, but don't cut its usability to others. PHP is nice, simple, easy, cross platform and a very poweful scripting language, it is the success of PHP, please don't complicate things. Tomas V.V.Cox