Re: Re[4]: [PHP-PEAR] Re: [phplib] Re: [PHP-PEAR] PHPLib and Pear merge

[Maxim Derkachev <kot@books.ru>] > Hello Stig, > > Monday, March 12, 2001, 12:35:42 PM, you wrote: > > SSB> Well, we'll just have to rewrite DB to C then (not kidding). > > Not the worst thing :) . But I'd rather bought Kristian's arguments > concerning PHP appserver. The most overhead of such complex things > like PEAR::DB is coming from its setup costs. There are many objects > to be compiled, a lot of memory to allocate, and then this damn > thing simply dies at the end of the request. I suppose it's not the > right way to rewrite all the good things in C because they just need more > time to compile. > I didn't mean PHP is BAD because it is an interpreter. I know you didn't. :-) A C rewrite would at least do away with the compilation overhead, and add some execution speed. There are other goodies that are only available in C too, such as object overloading. I've started converting the PEAR base class to C while figuring out the ins and outs of the Zend class API. But I agree that an application server is needed. All that is really necessary to make it happen is a SAPI implementation (similar to sapi/servlet). With a few tweaks in the PHP build system we could even put SAPI implementations in PEAR. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway