Hello, my two cents, On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM Marc Bennewitz <marc@mabe.berlin> wrote:
> Hi, > > During the discussion about the year 2038 issue it turned out that maybe > it's time to drop support for 32-bit of PHP completely. > > Based on that I have created an RFC to deprecate 32-bit build in 8.next > and drop support for it in 9. > > RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/drop_32bit_support I'd hate to see PHP cut itself out of 32bit, especially with workloads getting device specific "on the edge", and heavy loads moving in to different components; the lightness of 32 IMHO will be an asset. I think too it'd put a burden on the tiny-container approach. Way back, we were excited <https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/12974> but most of it was Apache. I guess it'd be a drag to maintain two branches but maybe an option. To be honest, the only processes I see over 4gb, even these days, are browsers. :) Best, Hans
