Posted by Jonas Werres on 01/14/08 10:37

> Out of curiosity, is there a way to avoid putting calls to MySQL in
> pages, and have PHP fetch data from a common pool, so that all
> connected users don't actually call MySQL directly, but simply read
> data from that common pool?
>
> Just an idea. I don't know if it makes any sense :-)

Possibility 1: You always need the same data. Then you can cache the pages.
Possibility 2: You need different data every time. Then what makes you think
the a crappy script language can provide them better than a dedicated db
engine?
I made the experience, that beyond all mysql optimisation and stuff, the
most common failure is to underestimate the db engine.

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