Re: [PHP-I18N] Re: surrogates optimization

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

> Tex,
> 
> This approach would work only if we allowed access to the string contents
> always via regimented API. Unfortunately, many third party extensions (and
> many bundled ones) simply change the contents of the string directly via a
> pointer.. I am not sure we could standardize this.

I think we should seriously consider this though, as it makes many of 
the string functions quite a bit faster.

Derick