Re: Re[4]: [PHP-PEAR] Re: [phplib] Re: [PHP-PEAR] PHPLib and Pear merge

[Maxim Derkachev <[email protected]>]
> Hello Stig,
> 
> Monday, March 12, 2001, 12:35:42 PM, you wrote:
> 
> SSB> Well, we'll just have to rewrite DB to C then (not kidding).
> 
> Not the worst thing :) . But I'd rather bought Kristian's arguments
> concerning PHP appserver. The most overhead of such complex things
> like PEAR::DB is coming from its setup costs. There are many objects
> to be compiled, a lot of memory to allocate, and then this damn
> thing simply dies at the end of the request. I suppose it's not the
> right way to rewrite all the good things in C because they just need more
> time to compile.
> I didn't mean PHP is BAD because it is an interpreter.

I know you didn't. :-) A C rewrite would at least do away with the
compilation overhead, and add some execution speed.  There are other
goodies that are only available in C too, such as object overloading.
I've started converting the PEAR base class to C while figuring out
the ins and outs of the Zend class API.

But I agree that an application server is needed.  All that is really
necessary to make it happen is a SAPI implementation (similar to
sapi/servlet).  With a few tweaks in the PHP build system we could
even put SAPI implementations in PEAR.

 - Stig

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  Stig Sæther Bakken <[email protected]>
  Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway