>-----Original Message----- >From: Rasmus [mailto:rasmus@xxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: 07 June 2011 13:53 >To: Lester Caine >Cc: php-windows; PHP internals >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-WIN] Re: [PHP-DEV] Windows builds > >On 06/07/2011 09:36 AM, Lester Caine wrote: >> Pierre Joye wrote: >>> Lester, >>> >>> We are now all aware of your constant bashing about our work for php >>> on windows, but could you please give us some rest and post this >>> wherever you like. >>> >>> And no you won't get a official ok for this build or any other but >>> what we have already numerous times discuss. The same applies even >>> more for x64 versions. >> >> No problem ... I'm not asking ... but future Firebird builds will only >> work fully with 64 bit installations. > >I can see it making sense to have a 64-bit build of a Database, but >clients that just talk to it over a socket using some socket protocol >shouldn't in any way be required to also be 64-bit. Same goes for your >Web server and PHP if you use the recommended FastCGI mechanism. Again >there is a nice separation between the two, so you don't need to match >build environments there either. One use of an x64 build (on windows at least) is to allow a script running from the command line to access more than 2GB of memory (as x86 windows executables are hard limited to that). Or via FastCGI for that matter, although quite why you would allow such a situation to happen is beyond me. J -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
