Re: Session mm support

Hi Nikita, On 26/08/2020 09:37, Nikita Popov wrote: > Hi internals, > > I've recently found out that compiling PHP with --with-mm has a massive > negative impact on PHP startup performance (approximately 3-4 times > slower), to the point that our CI got approximately 2x slower overall with > it enabled. This is not great. > > As I only found out about the existence of this session backend recently, > I'm wondering how widely it is used, and whether we wouldn't be better off > dropping it from php-src. The performance characteristics make it a pretty > big foot-gun. I think it might have been used in some deb/rpm packages a very long time ago and I vaguely recall it being somewhat a recommended setting for performance. I have however no recollection of when it stopped being relevant. Cheers -- Matteo Beccati Development & Consulting - http://www.beccati.com/