On 30 Oct 2004 22:30:35 -0000, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matthew@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have difficulty believing retrieving an image from a database will > have similar speed performance as simply grabbing it from the > filesystem... and if you're seeing a need to cache images on the > filesystem anyways, that's certainly already an argument against it. Zend.com / Leon Atkinson benchmarked it. http://www.zend.com/zend/trick/tricks-sept-2001.php <snip> Conclusions Based on the test results, it seems that keeping files in a database cuts performance by approximately a third. It's hard to accept this penalty in light of any meager advantages offered by keeping the files in the databases instead of in a directory. </snip> -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://gdconsultants.com/ http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
