On Mon, October 16, 2006 2:44 pm, Ed Lazor wrote: >> Almost ALL of this is moot for any but the hardest-hit sites -- So >> choosing your session store based solely on performance for a >> boutique >> store is just plain silly. > > You don't have to be one of the hardest-hit sites to benefit. I > won't go so far as to say that all sites benefit, but even the > boutique benefits, if you're running multiple sites on one server, > which is common. I agree with the other stuff you said about > serialization :) My thesis is that choosing SOLELY on raw performance without regard to security, scalability is silly, and it's particularly silly on sites that get so little traffic that "raw performance" tests and benchmarks are rendered meaningless. E.g., I don't really CARE what happens when you run my shopping cart code 1 billion times, because it's not going to be run 1 billion times in its entire life-cycle :-) I want code I can maintain and not have to wrap my brain into a pretzel to change the price of a product. Yeah, sure, in a shared hosting environment, a really bad script can be problematic -- I know, cuz I've gotten those emails from my webhost :-) [not about a shopping cart, but about incorrectly-optimized geo-search queries, actually -- fixed.] -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
