Re: Aggressive PHP Smart Caching

On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 23:55 -0400, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > Alexander, > > sorry to see nobody has replied to your post, im sure you worked very hard > on the cache system and are eager for feedback.. > > so to me it looks like youve introduced a somewhat new style of caching here > (though im sure there are other such approaches); for instance i know of 2 > main uses for caches at this time [as caching pertains to php]. > > 1. caching php intermediate code > 2. caching application variables > > both of these caching techniques are designed to overcome limitations of the > language as it ships out of the box, more or less; afaik. I presume you mean bytecode caching for #1. As for application variables... the lack of application level variables is a design choice to make it easier to scale your application horizontally. This is usually referred to as the "shared nothing" approach. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'