Custom PHP FastCGI interface? (Faster?)

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Custom PHP FastCGI interface? (Faster?)

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I may be mistaken (it's late) but aren't you just trying to do some form of caching? Regardless, the FastCGI interface seems to be fairly well defined. So, it should be possible to do whatever you want, fairly easily.

sybreon 2009-06-01 15:04:21

Well, it could be that caching is the way to go with PHP. What I'm really looking for is to have PHP code loaded _and_ initiliazed in memory. Imagine a framework with a lot of objects. As it's now it seems to me that all code needs to be initialized for every request. (Even if this process may be sped up by caching the bytecode etc.) I'd like to be able to write a framwork that has the ability to setup everything once. I guess :) This might no make sense in the face of clever PHP caching mechanisms. I don't know.

0scar 2009-06-01 15:10:30

But wouldn't this take up much more memory, which would also slow things down?

sybreon 2009-06-02 01:50:49

Well in practice yes, since the heap would probably grow larger and larger with every request. But theoretically, no. You're loading the same things. You just do it before a request, once, instead of on every request.

0scar 2009-06-02 11:59:45

"FastCGI interface seems to be fairly well defined. So, it should be possible to do whatever you want, fairly easily" .. great! So how do you do it?

0scar 2009-06-02 12:01:34

Since it's based of CGI I guess it's something like this. You need to provide the PHP script with some environment variables, and then read the PHP output off stdin. Then, do your magic and pass it on to the web-server.

sybreon 2009-06-02 15:39:01

You can not do it in PHP for PHP, you can do it in C for cgi-sapi but you probably want to use APC instead.

jpic 2009-07-10 04:06:13

Are you absolutely sure of this? Why not?

0scar 2009-07-15 10:58:41

My bad, i meant fastcgi sapi actually.@Oscar: Are you asking why doesn't it do what you expect? Check out http://php.net/apc it solves your needs.

jpic 2009-07-16 12:30:11

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