Re: Function caching...

On Saturday 09 December 2000 02:04, Zeev Suraski wrote: > I think we've been through this before - what you describe is simply not > PHP. It's changing the whole approach PHP is based on. In your opinion it > is wrong, in mine it isn't, and I believe that most people will disagree > with you once they understood what you're talking about. We liked php so much we use it for many other things. We have created many small applications/scripts with php. Most of then are network/xml/database based. We are now developing a binary news grabber, where the backend is created iun PHP > The kind of ideas that are interesting for me to implement are those that > will transparently improve performance - not by changing the rules of the > game. The Zend Cache does this very nicely, as it allows you to go on > using PHP just as you did before, and speeds things up. The Cache will the a great advantage for php. I hope it will be finished soon :) > I'm not saying that your ideas are bad. They just have very little to do > with PHP, and most of the advantages PHP has will be lost in such a setup > (ease of use, mainly). Remember, the primary concern for PHP is usability > and ease of use, and performance does come in second. It's very easy and > much cheaper to add more hardware, than to hire&train more people, and have > longer development times. In my opinion, the day performance becomes more > important than ease of use, would be the starting day of PHP's downfall. > Your right, to create the things we made in PHP in C,C++ any other language would have taken much more time. And time is money. -- = ing. Jacob Verhoeks - www.nedertux.com = = Nedertux Technologies - jacob@verhoeks.nl =