Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP5 Unstable ?

[D. Wokan]

Jan Kundrát wrote:
Omer Cohen wrote:
 

we're talking about one of the biggest OC communities.
   

<flame>
...and the same community whose members write code like that described
in PHP's bug 31261 [1], which seems quite ugly, at least to me.
</flame>
My point is that even if developers say their code is stable, it doesn't
have to mean it *really* is, altough they're probably correct.
[1] http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31261
 

Actually, I can understand avoiding unnecessary bit flipping.  I've done 
that in databases on occasion.  I'll write a SQL statement that checks 
if there are matching records for an update instead of just executing a 
statement that makes changes to those matching records.  Depending on 
the likelihood of changes and the number of records to be changed, it 
was sometimes faster to pre-qualify an update instead of just doing it 
when it wasn't going to find any matches.

That's all the code in that particular bug does, check the value of a 
bit before turning it off.  If it's already off, don't touch it.
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