On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Nikita Popov <[email protected]> wrote:
> What's out current state regarding ABI? I've recently done some work on
> making mbstring slightly less abysmally slow, but landed the changes on
> master only, because this included ABI breaks in mbfl/mbstring APIs and
> globals. Is this something I can land in PHP-7.2, or is it closed to
> extension ABI changes?
>
During beta I'm willing to tolerate some ABI breaks for high-value
things, but while mbstring performance is inarguably a good thing,
stability is an even better thing. Anatol mentioned concern about
stability, ergo I'm inclined to defer these improvements till 7.3.
-Sara