Re: Some more plane hacking...

[Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@php.net>] > I did a bit of playing around with Smarty on the plane today. > Basically I wrote a small C extension that creates the base Smarty > class and initializes many of the variables. Then I extended that > base Smarty class from user space with the existing user-space > Smarty class stuff. The result was a 25% speedup in my limited ab > tests. There is still a bunch of stuff in userspace that could > easily be moved into the extension and thus provide more of a > speedup. > > I also had a look at the pear DB class, although I didn't start > writing any code for that one. I think Stig mentioned he was > planning on pulling some of that into a PHP extension. But looking > around in Pear there are a number of classes that could benefit > greatly from a bit of help from a C extension. > > What is the overall feeling here about converting some of this stuff > to C? I think it's a good idea to convert a selected few classes to C. PEAR, PEAR_Error (these two have already been done, but the C version has not been updated) and DB_common are my first candidates. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@alltheweb.com> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway