Re: Help on caching an object.

2009/2/11 Yeti <yeti@myhich.com>: > Hello gang, > > First of all, yes I searched the mailing list's archive. > > My problem is very simple: > I have an object that's definately called with every page request. > It's pretty much the same for every unregistered/anonymous user. > And it's not small. Alot of attributes are being set from DB queries etc. > > Now my idea was to do some sort of caching with PHP to speed things up. > So I was wondering if anybody had experiences on this ... > > Of course, I considered using serialize(), but it seemed to me as if > it could cause even more lagging since PHP requires the class to > unserialize the object correctly. Then I would end up reading the > class file, reading the searialized object and unserializing it. A 100 > simple DB queries might be done in the same time or at least not much > slower. > > Could it be that I'm looking at the wrong place? Should it be more > like caching the queries or something similar? > > Thank you very much for everyone's effort in advance. I suggest you look at memcached - it's an in-memory volatile cache that performs extremely well. APC has a similar feature but I've never used it. Also, are you guestimating the performance of DB queries against a serialised file? Do some tests and you might be surprised at how quickly PHP can unserialise data. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/