RE: [PHP-DEV] ZTS - why are you using it?

> The other main reason from my side to keep ZTS is Windows. Windows cannot > perform well using process based SAPI. Windows actually works quite well with FastCGI. So well Microsoft even created their own version for IIS. It's outperforming the ISAPI module by a wide margin. Other than Apache/Windows not having FastCGI support(*), I really can't imagine any situation where using ZTS inside of a Web Server context makes any sense at all. I wouldn't call it a new trend, it's both old (I've been pushing for it since at least 2006, probably earlier) and with very solid technical reasons (faster, more reliable). > Yes, TSRM is horrible and does not match modern thread safe implementation > (APC does it better for its usage f.e. using rwlock). Note that I wasn't talking about the implementation of ZTS, but why you would want to use it in the first place. I actually think that using thread local storage is much better than using locks - but if you can make the whole problem disappear because there's no need for thread safety, that's even better. Why heavily invest in something unless there's a very good reason to use it? Zeev (*) Apache actually does have a good FastCGI implementation available in Zend Server for Windows (including the free CE version). Using it is faster and more reliable than using mod_php on Windows.