Re: general questions

Hello, Martin Jansen wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:18:16 -0500, Jason Lotito wrote: > > >Another is that using a light front API layer like PEAR's is faster (No, > >I don't have benchmarks to prove it, its simple fact and you are a smart > >enough man to know it, the more abstraction, the slower the system. > >Period.) in response time. Sure, moving a complete database over isn't > >going to work with something like PEAR, but neither will it now with > >your meta system. > > I think that is a very important point: IMO lot's of people don't > expect PEAR DB to be a complete database independent system, but > they use it because it works damn smart, has great error handling > and makes querying databases very easy. (I think Stig also stated > this some ago.) Such features will be preserved. That is the point of keeping PEAR-DB API. > So lot's of people are afraid that PEAR DB will be a different thing > after the merge, that it will not be this smart to use etc. PEAR-DB will be a superset of what it is today. There is nothing to be afraid of. Regards, Manuel Lemos