I also thought it was a technical or resource question. When not running as a cgi, don't the extensions gain persistence, loading only the first time requested or first time PHP is used, instead of loading with each request? That kind of question.
Warren Vail -----Original Message----- From: Mike Migurski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:22 PM To: CPT John W. Holmes Cc: Dan Joseph; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Curious about something.... >> Is there any particular advantage to having the default PHP install >> exclude a lot of useful modules such as mcrypt, cli, sockets, etc? > >Honestly, this has kind of been discussed this week in the "encoder" >thread. Where do you draw the line on what's useful or not and who does >the deciding on that? What's useful to you may not be to me. The modules >are easy enough to install if you need them, so you're just going to have >to do that. The question sounded more like a technical one - is it an advantage in terms of memory? CPU? startup overhead? etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
