Re: Persistent zvals

On Apr 7, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Luke Scott <luke@cywh.com> wrote: > >> I think I understand what you're getting at. So to avoid fragmentation >> you would have to have two independent memory spaces. Making non >> persistent memory persistent would require copying from one space to >> another. Is that correct? > > Yes, that's correct. > >> How is this handled in other platforms where you have an application >> instance (with state, if that's the correct terminology)? > > Application server is something different. PHP is not one, as it could > be possible to do that using the builtin web server (dev only :). An application server would be cool though. I was thinking along the lines of having each process be an instance of the application.. thus the idea about persisting objects. >> Are there any other options for reliably persisting objects/variables >> (without having to recreate)? > > Something I have been discussed in the past with a couple of persons > is to have a mechanism to automatically instantiate objects on request > start. That's not persistent objects but that could already boost a > little it the base foot print of some frameworks. How would that work? I'm intrigued. Luke > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | > http://www.libgd.org