Re: Server-Wide Persistent objects in PHP?

Edin Kadribasic wrote: > > 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. I am not claiming that neither XML-RPC, SOAP or Corba is fast, but rather ways of solving this type of problem. > > > 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? http://www.vl-srm.net/ I think SRM will be able to deliver acceptable speed. Also, Mark Woodward's msession extension is developing in the same direction, and msession already has proven itself very fast (1500+ requests per second on cheap intel hardware). - Stig