Posted by Drazen Gemic on 09/14/05 19:12

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:19:29 -0700, Oli Filth wrote:

> Things like database access libraries (and comms protocols like
> sockets, cURL, etc. AFAIK) rely on platform-specific libraries
> deep-down, so there's no way you could could replicate them in pure
> PHP.
>

I agree for basic things like sockets, but cURL functionality is something that
would be easy to write using existing socket library.

Database drivers rely on sockets most of the time. They are not very much
system specific. Besides network library(ies), most of the work is parsing
data streams.

> Things like GD (graphics) could be done, theoretically, but would be
> *horrifically* inefficient.
>

It does matter, but it does not have the highest priority.
Many PHP people argue about Java choice for enterprise
applications, but the main reason is ability to extend Java by just
dropping JAR files somewhere on the hard disk.

DG

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