Re: what PHP really needs

>>> There's 1 really important thing missing in PHP as I see it, and it's >>> the ability to keep variables in memory for as long as the programmer >>> choose. If this was possible there could be some truly great >>> optimizations done. Some things are very slow to create but very fast >>> to work with. I wrote a XML class a couple of days ago and while it's >>> extremly quick to search and work with, sadly it's rendered pretty >>> much useless since creating the tree which it uses isn't fast enough. > >Sessions? Sessions or cache files stored on a mount point mapped to RAM, even. If you want to go that far. --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html