Re: [APC-DEV] RFC: APCIterator class

The concept looks ok to me.  Like you said, a bit of cleanup is needed.

-Rasmus

shire wrote:
> Here is a rough patch of what I have currently in my working copy for an 
> APCIterator class.  Check out the tests for some examples but it looks 
> something like:
> 
> <?php
> $it = new APCIterator('user', $regex, $chunk_size);
> foreach($it as $key=>$value) {
>   echo $key."\n";
> }
> ?>
> 
> Some code probably needs to be cleaned up and I need to add a delete() 
> method along with the ability to only dump entry values rather than the 
> full entry info (which it does by default currently). Locking names also 
> conflict with sma.c which I'll need to resolve.
> 
> The primary purpose here is to allow iterating large caches in 
> $chunk_size steps, grabbing $chunk_size entries per lock instance so it 
> free's the cache locks for other activity rather than holding up the 
> entire cache to grab the first 100 entries or the first 100 entries 
> matching a regex.  Regex is also moved into the C level so it's faster 
> than grabbing all the entries and iterating over them in PHP arrays as 
> is currently required.
> 
> -shire
> 
> http://tekrat.com/patches/apc_iterator.patch
>