On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:48:35 +0200, Bert Slagter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thomas Goyne wrote:As a user, I personally see placing new features over making old features work better a large mistake. Perhaps that was necessary back in the days of PHP3, but its been a very long time since I've run into simply not being able to do something. Quite often, however, I've run into that the most direct way of getting something done performs too poorly to be usable. Maybe I'm just stuck with worse hardware than most others, but improved performance is one of the biggest thing I'd like to see out of new releases.
There's a lot that can be said about this. Of course it would be great if things get faster. But this optimization should be done very carefully and under strict supervision of those who know how and why things were done in a specific way.
As you could notice, I provide majority of my patches with standalone test
applications, which could be used to track possible bugs in my code and to
compare the performance, stability, advantages and clearity to old code.
It is not very hard, because all patches are quite small.
But nobody from PHP team developers has not checked up any of my patches till
now. So, I can done the conclusion, that PHP developers are not interested
in performance and stability improving at all. It seems, that all of them are
occupied by "fixing" bugs reported by users at bugs.php.net (are you consider
that any PHP user is your "beta-tester"?), but do not audit any existing code
for memory leaks, memory access violation and nessessary error checks.
Po etomu povodu jest' horoshaja russkaja pogovorka: "Poka grom ne gryanet, muzhik ne perekrestitsa".
Alexander: become a teamplayer! Don't try to be the star and do everything yourself. Follow those who lead. And for that sake: Derick is one of them :).
Thank you for offer. But I'm not ready to become a teamplayer right now. Maybe later.
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