Hi Internals. Random Extension is accepted and being implemented in PHP 8.2. Many thanks for the review.
The changes to enable arc4random in glibc were recently merged. https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/8984 This has the effect of reducing the number of getrandom system calls issued on Linux, which is effective in improving performance. However, this will only work in environments that use GNU libc, and will not work on Linuxes that use other libc (e.g. Alpine Linux that uses musl). As we discussed a bit above in PR (which is inherently a bad thing, because it's not a good thing), the following is an example of a "good" PR campaign Apologies), if we could implement CSPRNG on PHP, for example, it would improve performance on all platforms. However, there are several challenges to this. - Increased maintenance costs - Requires optimization for CPU architecture - Requires familiarity with CSPRNG PHP already bundles xxHash and appears ready to make this happen. Also, an appropriate CSPRNG implementation may be able to resolve the current complex macro branching. What do you think about this? Regards Go Kudo
