why should $_SESSION be slower than other arrays?
| From: | Aaron Voisine | Date: | Thu, 09 Sep 2004 04:52:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | why should $_SESSION be slower than other arrays? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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I read in the docs several comments that $_SESSION is slower that other
arrays. One
comment even had benchmarking info indicating it was about half as
fast. I don't understand
why this should be. Isn't $_SESSION just a normal super global array
like any other, except
that it get serialized and written to disk *once at the end* of a
request? Why on earth would this impact the performance of reading and
writing in the middle of a request? Is there some
funkyness going on under the covers that I'm missing? Can it be made to
work as I
described?
l8r
Aaron
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