Posted by Jake Gardner on 09/28/05 17:25

"You may download this PECL extension DLL from the PHP Downloads page
or at http://snaps.php.net/.

Note: On Windows, APC expects c:\tmp to exist, and be writable by the
web server."



On 9/28/05, Thomas <tomatosh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, that looks good. But what do I do if OS is WinDoze? The install of
> the pecl only gives a .so *feeling sorry not everything runs on xp* ...
>
> I will take the time to benchmark the serializing vs db calls ... is there a
> good benchmark tool out there (without having to use microtime inside the
> scripts)?
>
> Thanks
>
> T
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jasper Bryant-Greene [mailto:jasper@bryant-greene.name]
> Sent: 28 September 2005 11:41 AM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] serializing result sets or what?
>
> Thomas wrote:
> > Q: What would be the best way to save db calls for large result sets?
> >
> > I thought about serializing the data and then caching it (with Cache_Lite
> -
> > maybe there will be a future inclusion of such a caching scheme into the
> php
> > core or pecl?). I was not sure about performance though (no time for
> > benchmarking this).
> >
> > The issue is that as this system grows we get 2 - 3 db calls on the server
> > (which is too much in my opinion), but will serializing be cheaper or
> simply
> > the lesser of two evils?
>
> A very similar question was asked recently on this list. You might like
> to consider caching whatever you create from those result sets rather
> than the result sets themselves, but APC [1] is worth looking at as I
> believe it can cache (some?) PHP vars without serialisation, using
> apc_store() and apc_fetch().
>
> The only way to know whether such a scheme would help in your specific
> situation is to benchmark. Go on, it won't take long!
>
> [1] http://php.net/apc
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