Re: Re: cvs: php4 /ext/standard basic_functions.c incomplete_class.c php_incomplete_class.h var.c /ext/wddx wddx.c

From: Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 17:18:51 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: cvs: php4 /ext/standard basic_functions.c incomplete_class.c php_incomplete_class.h var.c /ext/wddx wddx.c
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On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Sterling Hughes wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> 
> > At 19:40 06/08/2001, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> > >On Mon, 06 Aug 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> > > > At 07:10 06/08/2001, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> > > > >     What if you use 50 different shared extensions, for different
> > > > >     scripts on the same box? Should you load them all in each time?
> > > > >     I don't think so...
> > > >
> > > > Other than your phobia, there's no real reason not to do it :)
> > >
> > >No performance hit at all?
> >
> > Nothing measurable.  That was actually measured (changing PHP to initialize
> > extensions just-in-time, in case they're actually being used) - and it
> > turned out it wasn't giving any noticeable performance gain.
> >
> > If there were a thousand extensions, we may have to rethink it - but the
> > good solution would probably be JIT initialization.
> >
> 
>     Interesting -- what about the extra weight of 50 extensions instead
>     of just one?

I think the disk weights about the same regardless of the data inside it
:)

Zeev



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