On 3 February 2015 at 13:54, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > Hi Leigh, > >> On 3 Feb 2015, at 13:51, Leigh <lei...@gmail.com> wrote: >> No idea. Personally I'm opposed to the bigints implementation because >> of the implicit type auto-promotion. > > Huh? There’s no type promotion from a userland perspective, it’s entirely an > implementation detail. Yes, some integers may be IS_LONG and others may be > IS_BIGINT internally, but that’s only for Zend Engine 3 (might change in > future), the boundary point varies by platform, and crucially, you can’t > distinguish them from userland.
Aside from the breaks to some binary ops and once you hit the promotion breakpoint working with that integer is a lot slower. Lets not derail this thread into a discussion about why I dislike bigints. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
