Re: Name for new function

Architecturally I don't think it belongs in the MySQL extension code itself. It could however be in a new DB Helper function extension which would most likely grow to include other stuff needed by the Pear DB abstraction layer eventually. -Rasmus On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 18:47 16-07-00, Derick Rethans wrote: > > > >Derick Rethans wrote: > > > > > Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > > > > > Don't you think this sort of emulation belongs in user space > > scripts? It'd > > > > be much less prone to bugs. > > > > > > It could be more prone to bugs, but I think that's not a great problem. > > I tried > > > to write the code as clean as possible. However, I think that this > > approach is > > > much faster then emulation in user space. I'll run some tests tomorrow. > > I'll > > > post the results on the list. > > > > > > >It seems that the function written in C code is about 15-20% faster than the > >implementation in user-space PHP. I think it's significant enough. My plan > >is to > >commit the patch to cvs within a few days. (I have to do some tweaking at some > >places). > > IMHO it's not significant enough to be worth more C code to maintain, and > should be given as a PHP code snippet. C code is worth it only when it > gives you an order of magnitude (10x faster or more). I'm interested to > know what others think about it, though; If others think it belongs in the > low level module, I won't be the party crasher. > > Zeev > -- > Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ > > >