Re: [phplib] Re: The future of PHPlib From: Stefan Jösch (sj <email protected>)
Date: 04/18/01

Using a large mallet, Chris Johnson whacked out:
> The problem is not so much PHPLIB on a high-volume site. The problem is
> PHP.
>
> That is not to say that one cannot use PHP on a high-volume site. The
> site http://www.amihotornot.com/ is very high volume, and runs on PHP
> and MySQL. They use cached DB and multiple hosts, though. There's an
> article about it in the latest Software Development magazine (print).
>
> But generally speaking, PHP suffers from being interpreted and from
> losing its entire context with each web page or call from the web
> server. If PHP ran in an application server, the speed and ability to
> handle high load could be greatly improved. This is not my idea. All
> the credit goes to our esteemed original PHPLIB developer, Kristian
> Köhntopp.

Do you have an url of Kristians article?

Regards,
      Stefan

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