RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: Improving speed (long)

Well ideally the user does not have to choose anything but only use what method he/she pleases. I think that is the goal we are trying to accomplish. I would even be willing to give up a little bit of performance in order to reach that goal. BTW: please keep these threads cross mailinglist so we all can collaborate Best regards, Lukas Smith smith@dybnet.de _______________________________ DybNet Internet Solutions GbR Alt Moabit 89 10559 Berlin Germany Tel. : +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax : +49 30 83 22 50 07 www.dybnet.de info@dybnet.de _______________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: John Lim [mailto:heyjohnlim@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:31 PM > To: pear-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: [PEAR-DEV] Re: Improving speed (long) > > > > > So IMHO the functionality could be splited in three parts: > > > > No Manipulation: query, get*, prep/exec, datatypes (default) > > Manipulation: sequences, transactions > > Extra: schema managment, cache > > > > The "how" question is more difficult to answer :-). I see some ways: > > > > 1) by aggregating methods as Stig proposed (cool as it can happen > > automaticaly but no support for almost no PHP4 installations). > > > > 2) by extending and preselecting the mode (will need knowledge of what > > is avaible in each mode but will be supported by all PHP4 releases). > > > > 3) by having different objects for the different modes and some kind of > > "object manager" to create, comunicate and handle them (no need of > > preselecting the mode, supported by all PHP4 releases but perhaps tricky > > to code). > > > > > > Tomas V.V.Cox > > Hi Tomas, > > Nice summary of the issues. Regarding "how": > > Aggregation (1) is an idea, but what about backward compat? > Furthermore does anyone have benchmarks using it? > > For speed, I like (2) extending and preselecting > using classes. Different classes in the same hierarchy could > have different functionality. Eg. > > class MySQL_Primitives { } > class MySQL_Standard extends MySQL_Primitives { } > class MySQL_Extended extends MySQL_Standard { } > > The user just chooses which class to use, based on his/her > needs. > > (3) I don't really see how an object manager really helps. > The user should choose the mode, not the object manager. > > Regards, John > > > > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php