Re: Need help on memory allocation when developing an extension

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Zhuguo Shi <blueflycn@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello to every one, > This is my first time to be here and I am doing some work with PHP > extensions. > I am new to this field and I have one question, please allow me to > explain more specifically. > Actually I am developing a PHP extension with C++, and it has to read > data from a file every time it receives a request. So I wonder if I can put > the initialization of that class into the extension's MINIT, including the > reading data from file, so that it does not need to open and read file every > time it performs its function. > The reason why I want to do this is to reduce the IO time and increase > its performance. If that is possible, can any one point out the key steps > that I should do? If not, can some one give me some advices? > Any help is of great appreciation, and thanks in advance~ > of couse you can load that file in the MINIT and store the file content in a global variable.Or you can read the file content in your first function call and store in a global variable,then the next time the function can use data from that global variable. You even don't need to use a thread-safe global variable in this case,so it is not different from programming in a normal c/c++ program.