Re: Re: CouchDB extension

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 21/04/10 12:16, Andrew Colin Kissa wrote: > On 21 Apr 2010, at 12:12 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: >> I wonder what the benefit over a PHP implementation is. We have ways to >> do the needed http calls from PHP and en-/decode json so the penalty by >> plain PHP shouldn't bee tooo big whereas installation/maintenance > > My understanding was doing it in C would provide better performance although > i have not actually bench marked it I doubt you'll see any benefit from a PHP extension. The relevant parts (JSON-Encoding, HTTP-parsing) are already done in C. (json_decode, PHP-Stream wrapper or curl). Everything else left, is mostly waiting for the network. Which is the same for PHP code an C code. - From my point of view an extension is just harder to deploy and maintain compared with PHP code, so that I see no reason for a PHP CouchDB extension. On the other hand: It probably won't hurt. Kind regards, Kore - -- Kore Nordmann (GPG 0xDDC70BBB) - - What I do: http://kore-nordmann.de/portfolio.html - - Motivate me: http://wishlist.kore-nordmann.de/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvO1jAACgkQgIJx893HC7vH0QCfV78yidwtX2mAFp9dZJt3Gkss mpAAoJ+XRmoUi3x8fUH2mv1xx7ykeVHC =7p4z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----