Posted by Rasmus Lerdorf on 01/06/05 20:52

William Lovaton wrote:
> Rasmus,
>
> El jue, 06-01-2005 a las 08:23 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf escribió:
>
>>On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, William Lovaton wrote:
>>
>>>This is great. In my high performance web app I created a PHP library
>>>that abstracted this to use several backends. For instance I have a
>>>File backend and a SHM backend that uses the functions provided by the
>>>sysvshm PHP module. With this functions, do they need to
>>>serialize/unserialize every time I put/get something in/from the cache??
>>
>>If you are doing this in user-space PHP, then yes, you will have to
>>serialize.
>
>
>>From my PHP library I use shm_put_var() and shm_get_var(). If
> serialization is done this way then it is implicit... right?

Yes, these functions serialize/unserialize behing the scenes.

-Rasmus

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