Re: PEAR 1.4.0a9 fixes memory problems in my tests

Greg, This is most excellent to hear, though I could care less (I never had an issue, 1GB RAM and no memory limits :D) except that it will keep a lot of people from bitching at you :) What did you do that caused the reduction in memory usage? I'm curious, probably something we all could learn from and help us to reduce memory usage in all our code (I have been very memory concious in Cerebral Cortex but never done any profiling or anything) :D - Davey Greg Beaver wrote:

Hello, For all standard commands, including Web Installer-used commands like list-all, list, install/upgrade/upgrade-all and so on, PEAR 1.4.0a9 has a significantly lower memory footprint, and clocks in under 8 MB. Packaging can still take oodles of memory because of the memory hit by token_get_all(). This is especially true for packages like PEAR that have both a package.xml 1.0 and 2.0, as this puts memory usage at about 6 MB prior to source code analysis. However, I am under the impression that most devs doing packaging will be doing this on a development machine that they control, so unless my impression is wrong, this should not be an issue, as the "peardev" command can be used for those who wish to keep memory_limit at 8MB in php.ini. Other important fixes are in this release, particularly for installing/upgrading PECL packages. Now is a good time for those who wish to have input into how things are implemented to take a good, hard look at the installer, and try to either break it or to use it to solve problems. I am going full-tilt into documenting the new features. Once they are documented, it will be getting close to the first beta release which means feature freeze. Note: the freeze will not happen until it is clear that lots of people have tried things and are pretty happy. Your best friend in this process is going to be: 1) pear help 2) pear help <commandname> like "pear help channel-add" 3) the manual at pear.php.net, particularly this section: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.developers.package2.php Also, the as-yet unpublished changes to http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.cli.php in peardoc/en/chapters/installation.xml which can be seen in my last commit in pear-doc archives. 4) me Greg