Re: DB performance

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 14:55:18 +0200 (CEST), Edin Kadribasic wrote: >On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Christian Stocker wrote: >> >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-pear&m=98396772605723&w=2 > >Thanks for the link. Those numbers don't look too good and confirm my >suspicion of noticable performance loss (as in pages/sec) when switching >from "native" calls to Pear. PEAR::DB is an abstraction layer for the native db functions. Abstraction layers are always slower than the native functions. If you are concerned about performance issues and you are sure that you will never have to use another DBMS in your project, you are better of using the native functions. I for myself love PEAR::DB. To avoid performance loss when using it, I use caching methods like the PEAR cache in order to win some performance points at other critical areas in the project. >If I remember correctly >somebody mentioned porting the package to C to address those. Any news on >that front? I think Stig once began to port some PEAR classes into C, but I don't know how far he went. Stig? - Martin