Hi,
I think that PHP6 adoption will obviously come down to exactly how much
slower unicode support will make things. If its a 10% drop, I think we
will probably find ways to smooth out the kinks with some nice tweaks
here and there. If it gets considerably above 10%, then it will be more
tricky.
But at any rate, I think there are a fair amount of people on PHP4,
holding out for PHP6 to do their next redesign etc. All in all I think
we have enough pain points even without unicode for people to have
excuses to not support PHP6.
So imho, if we make PHP6 as fast as we can for unicode only and still
find that its too slow for people to adopt, then we might be better of
back porting a few nice features to PHP5, then making PHP6 a dual
version internally. Then again, I am likely talking out of my a.. here,
since I do not work on the source.
regards,
Lukas
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