Just for the record, there is no fork() on Win32. I have little doubt Sterling meant the Win32 equivalent :).
The only reason I felt this worth mentioning is that fork() on Unix is a relatively cheap operation, and an advantage unique to Unix. Some have posted here of service providers that host huge numbers of low volume websites using PHP in CGI mode. On Win32 you only have one choice - start a new php.exe instance on every request. This is an expensive operation - possibly even more expensive than the equivalent operation on Unix. On Unix you have another *potential* choice - load the php executable once and fork() on each request. The presence of fork() on Unix offers (at least in theory) a unique performance advantage over Win32. -----Original Message----- From: Sterling Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:50 AM Just as a note to this, under windows using PHP as a CGI is actually ideal when you're not serving high traffic stuff, like for example the company intranet, or a small extranet. PHP is heavily used for such purposes, and you most likely won't run into a bottleneck from forking php in these cases. -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
