Hi, On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 14:20, Arjen van der Meijden wrote: > Are those two LIGHT weight? > Afaik, PEAR (DB) affects the performance of your OO-php-app quite bad, > but I haven't really tested it very often myself, just seen tests by others? > And I'm not talking "quite bad, because php is not very fast in OO", I'm > talking "quite bad, compared to other (custom built, light weight, > simple) OO abstraction layers". > Maybe that has changed since then? But I have, for that reason, never > really started using PEAR...
Please don't get me wrong, I've got an obsession like determining the idea behind any free software project which I'm not really sure if it's a good thing or not. I'm not the only one who thinks there are way too many projects duplicating each other (either completely or partially); wasting human resources and motivation in both short and long term. Just talking about PEAR::DB, you know, it's a generic database abstraction layer which attempts to provide almost the same interface for hopefully all databases supported by PHP; not only for PostgreSQL and MySQL. It's no junk and it's something barely standardized and it's bundled with official PHP distribution. In the end, it's free software. I have noticed no performance bottlenecks in the past and even if there was, I doubt there is a starving need for performance in web applications. And I could be a good salesman so I'd better shut up :) The term "lightweight" means barely nothing to me. Mozilla is FAT, but most of us do use (at least parts of) it. PostgreSQL is not that lightweight, you could use flat-files and POSIX API. For many cases, weight is affordable, and we could possibly help it lose that fat by bug reports. BTW, you have not posted a URL for your work. Could you please do so, if there is any? I would like to take a quick look at your code some time this weekend. Thanks for your patience for reading through the stripped-from-good-ideas proven long text written by me. Happy new year, -- __________ | | | | Enver ALTIN (a.k.a. skyblue) | | Software developer, IT consultant | FRONT | |==========| FrontSITE Bilgi Teknolojisi A.Ş. |_____SITE_| http://www.frontsite.com.tr/
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