Posted by Evert - Rooftop Solutions on 03/06/05 02:16

Mark Charette wrote:

> Evert - Rooftop Solutions wrote:
>
>> I heard that shared memory is actually slower than writing and
>> reading a file and it is not available on windows systems.
>
>
> Hmmm ... that's an interesting thing you heard concerning shared
> memory. Care to share _who_ told you that?
>
> I'd like to make sure I don't hire him/her in the future.
>
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2001/10/11/pearcache.html

Check it out, is in old article, but it says "|shm| -- The |shm|
container stores the cached data in the shared memory. Benchmarks
indicate that the current implementation of this container is much
slower than the |file| container."

It is a bit outdated, but I haven't seen any recent benchmarks.

grt,
Evert

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