Re: [PECL-DEV] Re: CouchDB extension

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On 21/04/10 12:16, Andrew Colin Kissa wrote:
> On 21 Apr 2010, at 12:12 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
>> I wonder what the benefit over a PHP implementation is. We have ways to
>> do the needed http calls from PHP and en-/decode json so the penalty by
>> plain PHP shouldn't bee tooo big whereas installation/maintenance
> 
> My understanding was doing it in C would provide better performance although
> i have not actually bench marked it

I doubt you'll see any benefit from a PHP extension. The relevant parts
(JSON-Encoding, HTTP-parsing) are already done in C. (json_decode,
PHP-Stream wrapper or curl).

Everything else left, is mostly waiting for the network. Which is the
same for PHP code an C code.

- From my point of view an extension is just harder to deploy and maintain
compared with PHP code, so that I see no reason for a PHP CouchDB
extension. On the other hand: It probably won't hurt.

Kind regards,
Kore

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