Re: Mail/mimeDecode.php

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:20:19 -0400, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: >Quoting Marc Logemann <logenews1@morelogs.de>: > >> But the problem is, that this is also an extension. > >This is a dangerous line of thinking. I don't think it's very healthy to go >around re-implementing everything that sophisticated c libraries do in php user- >space - it's a lot of duplicated effort, it's _slow_ ... But often the userland implementations are the only possibility for lot's of people to use the feature they are looking for. People like me (and perhaps you also) are in the lucky position of having a friendly sysadmin sitting 3m away from them (having a friendly sysadmin is a good thing [tm], btw), but lot's of people have to deal with the situtation that is given to them by an cheap ISP service. They simply haven't to chance to use the mailparse extension. People taking care for performance will surely find out that there are better (faster etc.) alternatives than the PEAR implementation and will begin to use them. But again: For some people the PEAR implementations are the only chance. - Martin