"David Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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>I was told that PEAR has too much overhead to be considered for a large 
>scale site. Does any one feel the same? Is this an outrageous comment? I 
>would like to hear comments from people who are using PEAR, or people who 
>have considered PEAR but decided not to use it and your reasons.

I wound up taking a hybrid approach, rolling my own DB abstraction layer 
that was more efficient than PEAR DB (and less full featured, as well), but 
suited our needs nicely.  By doing this I was able to reduce each page's 
memory footprint by about 50%, and execution time by about 40%.  I still use 
other components of PEAR, however, and I think it is a great resource.

Anyone who dismisses PEAR out of hand, without giving it a serious look, is 
insane.

> The packages I am particularly interested in are HTML_QuickForm and DB.

You'll have to write some tests and do some benchmarks to decide what the 
best answer is. 

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