Re: php module state initialization

Well, the absolute fastest way to get something similar to this is to write a PHP extension in C that performs your time-sensitive operations. It really is much easier than most people think to extend PHP in this fashion. If you are a moderately experienced C programmer, you can take a function you have written in PHP and turn it into C without too much hassle. -Rasmus On Tue, 7 May 2002, Gabriel Ricard wrote: > I know that there are several script caching systems that exist for PHP > currently, and they increase the speed of PHP scripts greatly, but I > wonder if there is something more that can be done to increase the > execution speed of scripts. Primarily, what I'm interested in, is the > ability to have PHP load a library/include type script when it is > started, and then have that state persist for all scripts that are executed. > > I believe this is something that AOLServer does when it starts up. I > don't know if this functionality exists with PHP, if someone out there > has perhaps made an extension that can do this, or if it's even > possible. I don't know the architecture of Apache or other servers and > how they work so please let me know if this is simply not possible. > > Could it work in such a way that when the PHP module is initialized it > would read in a PHP file, and then when the server is either forked or a > thread is created, the state of the PHP module is cloned so that the > functions/variables defined in the pre-loaded script would automatically > exist? > > Could someone perhaps give me some pointers to documentation that would > help me better understand how the PHP module interacts with web servers > such as, but not limited to, Apache/AOLServer? > > -- > Gabriel Ricard > gabe@sumorai.net > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >