Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] Full x64 for Windows Update????

Hey Pierre,

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote:

> hi!
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Hans Z <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Pierre Joye <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Jorge F. Hernandez
> >> <[email protected]>wrote:
> >>
> >> >  Hello Pierre,
> >> >
> >> > I understand you guys are getting annoyed with me asking the same
> >> > question over and over again, but as you might recall, first I got a
> >> > "Probably in version 5.5" 5.5 came out and it's just experimental,
> most
> >> > of the x64 capabilities are not available, like memory_limit, then you
> >> > guys
> >> > told me "Maybe in version 5.6", all I'm asking is for an update
> >> > saying:"we are at 25%, 50%,
> >> > 75% of all the work that needs to be done, we plan it to be ready by
> >> > xx/xx/xxxx" or something like that.
> >> >
> >> > I hope you also understand me, I'm just a Linux guy that wants to
> throw
> >> > in my manager's face that PHP is better than ASP in Windows.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> x64 won't make it necessary better. It won't be much faster, if at all.
> >>
> >> The only thing that x64 will bring is large integer support, large file
> >> support and the likes.
> >
> >
> > The other thing is trying to use x64 SQL Server (and possibly DB2) client
> > libraries in server environments.  After dealing with the first, I
> basically
> > skipped the second :)
>
> Well, as far as I can tell (well, I can tell a lot right now), it is
> not supported yet, but that's coming soonish. I can't give a date yet
> but this is something independent from the core x64 support. We will
> provide the binaries just like we do already for other PECL
> extensions.
>

Excellent, very much looking forward to that :)

H