Re: Re: design of forum applications
| From: | Pierre-Alain Joye | Date: | Thu, 15 May 2003 15:25:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: design of forum applications | ||
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On Thu, 15 May 2003 10:18:05 -0400
"Ilia A." <ilia@prohost.org> wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> The problem with using PEAR in forum applications is scalability,
> which is why all major forum applications roll their own database
> abstraction layers. Unlike simple apps like blogs, forums tend to be
> complex high traffic applications where the overhead of PEAR is just
> impractical.
The overhead of an abstraction layer when you need performances. PEAR is
not that small and I'm not sure we can say "the overhead of PEAR" :-).
But I follow you on the principles, we should not rely on PEAR for
everything (or any others tools) we work on. But we all know that, do
we? ;-)
pierre