On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Arvids Godjuks <arvids.godj...@gmail.com> wrote: > It took me like 10 minutes of "Search & Replace" in my IDE to make a switch > to mysqli and a few more hours to validate that everything is ok and catch > places where search & replace failed. The amount of work is overestimated, > especially if you have a regexp capable search & replace.
10 minutes x 50 billion (http://www.statisticbrain.com/total-number-of-pages-indexed-by-google/ ) is not a trivial number. Heck, assume even only 10% of the web pages on the internet use mysql_* calls, and you're still talking 50 billion minutes, or about 95 thousand years. At 1%, it's only 9 thousand years, possibly greater than the entire written and recorded history of the human race. Considering there are a huge quantity of PHP end users (Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, Magento, etc.) who don't even know what 'regexp' means, and would take a lot more time than ten minutes just trying to understand why "my website is broken, can you fix it?".... yeah. On the less pessimistic side, since I work as a PHP site author/maintainer for a living, a pool of 9,000 years of work would suit me just fine. Even 900 years would equate to a huge jobs program for my field. -Ronabop -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
