Re: feature request : easy shared memory

Might want to look into redis or memcache also, you can get a bit of persistence and distribution that's a bit tougher when your married to an apache instance. -Chris On Mar 14, 2013 12:06 AM, "rene7705" <rene7705@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > I'd like to build a replacement for SQL (yes, talk about an ambitious > project! ;), because the constant transferal of data in and out of SQL from > Javascript (where everything might as well be object-oriented and > hierarchial) is a pain in the neck. > > But in order to do so, I'd very much like PHP (the server still controls > the data after all) to support shared memory efficiently. > > Something like > > sharedmem $bigNestedArray; // $bigNestedArray would be shared accross the > entire server and all CPUs on it. > > as you now have > > global $bigNestedArray; > > would be ideal. > > I bet this would be useful for a host of other applications as well, and > fairly easy to implement. > > I'm an application programmer by trade, or I would hack this in myself. > > I'd much rather see the PHP development team develop this in properly. I > don't think it would require much time, as OS-level shared memory has been > easy to implement since the 1990s. > > Please put this on the agenda, and get back to us in this thread as to when > this will be available. >