Andi Gutmans wrote: > Hi Sara, > > Sorry but I wasn't on IRC so I don't quite understand what you're trying to > accomplish ;) > Can you please explain? Once I understand what you're trying to accomplish > I'll be more than happy to provide feedback to the > options list.
Andrei/Pierre have a document on this stuff somewhere. I wasn't on irc either. But I did chat with Andrei about this a couple of weeks ago and the basic problem we are trying to solve is how to properly encode user GPC data. The 2 big problems with the current compile-time JIT approach we use to populate GPC arrays is that bubbling an encoding error up to the user is a PITA, especially if we get an error on an entry the user didn't ask for since current JIT populates the entire array when any element in the array is accessed. And the second problem is that encoding is more expensive per element now, so populating the entire array just because the script tries to read one element could cause performance problems and could lead to the array poisoning I talked about in my reply to Sara's message. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
