Re: Generic in-memory persistence

> Specifically, I want to be able to create an array of values (huge > array) in memory and then leave it there across requests to the server. > The array comes from an XML file. Right now I have to read it in > every time, which is pretty quick, but concerns me because it is an > extra step that would be unnecessary were I using FastCGI. On Unix systems, you can use the shared memory support to get the same effect. On a couple sites that have to run on Windows, I'm using a simple cache system since retrieving something from a MySQL heap table and unserializing it is *much* faster than regenerating it. In particular, the XML I'm using has to be retrieved from a not-overly-fast server, rendering the fact that PHP can parse it in a few milliseconds moot. Chris