Re: store class zithin session

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote: > Eric Butera schreef: >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Yeti <yeti@myhich.com> wrote: > > ... > >>> >> >> Autoload. Why on earth would you do such a thing? > > autoload ... your neighbourhood opcode cache performance killer, > then again so is file based sessions (for ease of use I stick > my session files on /dev/shm/foo [i.e. RAM] if/when using a > file based session handler ... I figure if the box goes down and > takes /dev/shm with it the lost session data is the least of > my worries ... besides by the time the box is up current visitors > will generally have given up and left already) > > ... and storing a path to > a file containing a serialized object in the session is a bit nuts, > you might as well store the serialized object in the session and > save at least one file write/read. storing a serialized object, > as opposed to letting the session handler do transparent serialization > can help you get round an infrastructure problem (where you can't > load the class before starting the session) and also can improve > performance where you might not want/need to initialize the > given object on every request. > >> > > Well I wouldn't put objects into the session to begin with. I was just talking about this specific case. Wouldn't autoload be fine if the file was already in the opcode cache?