Hi, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > Robin Ericsson wrote: >> On 3/21/07, Bankó Ádám <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The project is existing, I'm doing it for about a year and a half, and >>> SoC is way I can spend more time on it in the summer. >> >> If there is someone willing to something, and someone else is paying >> for it, let him do it. Why should it bother whether it's C or PHP? The >> community will benefit from it either way. > > Its a question of maintainability. Stuff like reverse engineering > schema's from a database is simply not sensible to be done by C code. It > requires a low barrier to entry, the ability to quickly fix things if > you encounter a newer or very old obscure RDBMS version etc.
Then make a mix of PHP and C code. C call call PHP userland, so it shouldn't be a problem. And as I see it, it is always good to have reference implementation in PHP and port it to C. I think Marcus did it while implementing SPL. > regards, > Lukas > Ciao, Andrey -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
