Re: phar development update

Hello Gregory, Saturday, June 14, 2008, 12:16:58 AM, you wrote: > Hi all, > A quick note on significant improvements to phar committed recently: > * tar-based archives now fully support metadata and signatures, > bringing them in line with more of the features of phar-based phar archives. > * true asymmetric signing support using OpenSSL private/public key pairs > * phar.cache_list provides pre-parsing of phar manifests at MINIT, with > performance enhancement that matches on-disk for non-APC and improves > perf to 19 req/sec (in-phar) vs. 28 req/sec (on-disk) in my benching of > phpMyAdmin with APC. This performance benefit only accrues with > webservers that run MINIT once and then spawn other processes/threads > with RINIT. > Also, Scott is working on a patch to sqlite that will allow using > databases mounted inside a phar archive with a phar url, which will > greatly simplify pharring apps that use sqlite. WOW, SQLite from within a phar sounds really awesome! Best regards, Marcus