Re: PEAR performance/overhead

On Dec 7, 2004, at 12:34 PM, David Dickson wrote:

I was told that PEAR has too much overhead to be considered for a large scale site. Does any one feel the same? Is this an outrageous comment? I would like to hear comments from people who are using PEAR, or people who have considered PEAR but decided not to use it and your reasons. The packages I am particularly interested in are HTML_QuickForm and DB.

I think that when most people say PEAR has big overhead they're referring to the parsing work that must be done. Under a plain PHP implementation it can be quite expensive to re-parse those two packages for every request. However, if you are concerned with performance on your site you should be using a compiler so that this does not occur. A php compiler will easily improve your site's performance by an order of magnitude. -ryan -- http://theryanking.com/blog