RE: [PECL-DEV] Static array & PHP CLI

if you use such an architecture, everything is done as only one PHP 'request'. The PHP 'request' just lasts one week ! So, PHP persistence is useless in your case, as persistence is used to persist data between several PHP requests. The PHP process get requests one by time, like for PHP-CGI. At the end a the request, the process is not killed, It's just waiting for another request, so persistence is usefull here. Yes, I understand that you keep your PHP process alive to handle subsequent requests. But, for PHP, the whole process, from the time it is created to the time it dies, is considered as a single 'request' (containing your 'request' loop). In such a process, any memory you allocate using emalloc() functions will actually persist for the whole process lifetime. So, in your architecture, you don't need to care about allocating PHP persistent arrays, as even arrays created using array_init() ARE persistent.