Re: [PEPr] Comment on Networking::GeoIP

Hans Lellelid wrote:

Tomas V.V.Cox wrote:

It should be indeed, sadly isn't taken in mind many times. I know some classes in PEAR that can't handle big volumes of data or users, and apart for being useless in some cases, throws over the whole PEAR the sensation of a newbie collection of classes.

Ok, fair enough. It seemed arbitrary, but I guess the end result is generally for web apps

Imo this is a wrong thought. PHP is actually a general purpouse language including cmdline scripting and graphic apps. Even so, PEAR should run smoothly from small sites to big sites and should be the implementation reference on how to do things. I've read in the past so many arguments against PEAR because of performance.

& perhaps if it isn't fast enough it shouldn't be written in PHP [period].

If PHP brings me flexibility, security and RAD, why i'd waste my time/money with other low level solutions?

Well, as my subsequent email indicated, it's actually 2000 req/s on my machine when doing simple ip-to-country lookups.

Great. Casuality, I need this functionality for my antispam tool, which must handle peaks of 20 msgs/s. Tomas V.V.Cox