Re: Suggestions for the next php
| From: | Manuel Lemos | Date: | Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:49:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Suggestions for the next php | ||
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Hello,
Stephano Mariani wrote:
>
> I believe fork is very expensive in terms of performance.
> One should consider that in the case of server modules (ISAPI in
> particular) a huge overhead is incurred when forking. I better
> alternative would be the vfork call. Or better still, the __clone call.
I don't know exactly what pcntl uses. From the programmer point of view,
the principle is the same as fork.
> Do you know of any ways to implement this without changes to the php
> codebase itself? I doubt it is possible for an just extension to do
> this, it need the php core to support this.
Ask Jason Greene.
Regards,
Manuel Lemos