RE: [PHP-DEV] overloading JNI return values

> > I haven't looked at that part of the code, but David > Sklar's idea about > > using the mod_jserv protocol to talk to a persistent JVM > seems like a good > > place to start to me. > > I'm curious... this happened, and a persistant JVM was used, > would this mean > that we'd suddenly have a persistant resource accessible from > any httpd > process that would store objects that didn't need to be > serialized()/unserialized() at every script invocation? I > know it would only > be for people using the JVM, and I don't know about memory > usage, but it > seems that could be huge win for people with complex session > information to > store... well, yes & no. you would need to keep a "reference" to the particular class you wanted to persist. otherwise, the java garbage collector will eat it up. there'd almost need to be a persistent PHP class that could do that. it's not impossible - but it is hurting my brain right now ;-) -brian-