Re: Server-Wide Persistent objects in PHP?

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 derick@php.net wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Edin Kadribasic wrote: > > > The trouble with remote object access mechanisms is that most of them are > > really slow. I had great success with serializing objects and arrays into > > shared memory. All of that was done in PHP using sysvshm extension. Maybe > > some system support for that could make it even easier and hopefully > > even faster. > > The 'remote' accessesible objects can also be on the same server, with > communications trhough unix domain sockets, this shouldn't be that slow. Well, I'm aware of that :) Still, you can serialize objects to the database if you want to, but the performance is going to be poor. I cannot image XMLRPC being any faster. I did use Corba a while back, and I'm still recovering from the experience. > > The approach is not perfect. Your objects become readable to every > > user on the same webserver, so it would probably be impractical for ISPs > > to enable it. > > In SRM objects are bound to a session (if that is requested from the > script while creating an object). I have not tried that before. To be honest, I'm clueless as to what SRM is. Could you please send some pointers? Edin