so your systems represent all the software problems out there in the world? or your experience does? hard to believe. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rene Veerman wrote: >> >> jeez dude, you're assuming that all software problems are best solved >> by a sql solution. >> imo, they're NOT. example? any realtime system with real work to do. >> >> please stop pretending you know the proper design of all software that >> is made or yet has to be made. >> both a ya. > > I run real time systems for offices that count serving time in seconds. I > know currently where the bottlenecks are, and adding 'threading' to PHP is > not a solution. I fact adding much of the dross that has been added to PHP5 > is ACTUALLY slowing down performance. I have PHP5.3 and PHP5.2 running on > similarly loaded sites, and PHP5.2 is faster! I am just pointing out that on > *MY* REAL applications, the SQL element is a major part of the processing > time, and yes moving some of the table lookups to be hard coded arrays in > PHP would make a difference, but then complicates configurability, so > keeping them in the database makes life easier. > > The proper design is the one that meets the customers requirements and gets > the bills paid. Processing the raw statistics required for my own sites is > best done away from PHP, so using the right tools for the job is the > important thing? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php