Posted by Evert - Rooftop Solutions on 03/05/05 23:46

Chris Smith wrote:

> I have seen some people using stornig cached items in shared memory.
> This is explained in some detail here:
>
> http://www.danga.com/memcached/
>
I heard that shared memory is actually slower than writing and reading a
file and it is not available on windows systems.

> There are PHP client APIs available.
>
> Alternatively PEAR offers some interesting caching solutions although
> i have not investigated them thoroughly ( http://pear.php.net/ )
>
> Caching brings all sorts of wierdness out in applications due to
> multiple states of data being present in different layers in a system,
> so be careful.
>
Thanks I will check it out.

> Hope this helps,
>
> Chris Smith
> Ninja Labs
> http://www.ninjalabs.co.uk/

greetings,
Evert

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