On 02/02/15 23:50, Andrea Faulds wrote: >> Since a clean 64bit build of PHP does not need anything other than >> > 'integer' to support 64bit BIGINT SQL numbers, loading 32bit builds with >> > an overly heavy solution is just not right! > I don’t see how it’s “overly heavy”. Bear in mind that several extensions > (not just ext/gmp) already require GMP anyway.
libgmp.so is 538.6kb gmp.so add a further 242.1kb You will have to elaborate on what else is reliant on it for a normal PHP build. I've only JUST installed any of it on the development machine to get those sizes and gmp extension is not yet enabled. THAT just seems rather heavy to just support a pair of 32bit integers that the database extension has already loaded and is handling as a single object ... on a 32bit platform. >> > 'longint' only needs an >> > extension to provide it, which can then be replaced by properly crafted >> > code for devices that already have 256bit and better maths capability >> > anyway. > GMP provides high-performance, optimised SIMD assembly implementations for > most platforms. Yes GMP does have some ARM support, but it may not be the most economic solution. ARM does have it's own more compact libraries for the same functionality and replacing the 780kb gmp option by something smaller should be an option, rather than making the rest of the core dependent on it. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
