Re: [PHP4BETA] Hoard

Indeed, seems very interesting. I have a few questions though (forgive me if they seem a little silly)... Is this something that you're looking at to be integrated into the PHP4 source? If so (or if it's something that someone could use as a 'bolt-on' addition when compiling PHP), then exactly what benefits could it bring to PHP? They say it "can dramatically improve the performance of multithreaded programs", but in what way? It seems (from my interpretation) that as Hoard speeds up memory allocation, that this will only make a big difference for the CGI version of PHP, as memory is allocated primarily on a program's startup/shutdown. The Apache module version of PHP is always in memory, is it not? Anyway, if you can set me straight on these few things, it will set my intrigued mind at rest... :) (BTW, I'm interested because my company may be thinking of moving some operations to an SMP Linux box with Apache/PHP4 in the future, and anything that could optimise performance would be great.) Basil Hussain (basil.hussain@reserve.co.uk) ----- Original Message ----- From: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@raleigh.ibm.com> To: <php4beta@lists.php.net> Sent: 01 November 1999 18:10 Subject: [PHP4BETA] Hoard > Apart from it being under the LGPL, this looks pretty interesting: > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/emery/hoard/ > > -Rasmus