Nope, it isn't faster. You should use your own if you have one installed on your machine. Chances are your will match your server better than the bundled one. The typical mismatch being the location of the mysql unix-domain socket.
We bundled one so that the default PHP install will always be able to talk to a remote MySQL server and because we got tired of answering the dozens of "mysql_connect undefined function" questions we got every day. -Rasmus On Sat, 18 May 2002, Pentothal wrote: > Which are the differences between the php bundled mysql > library and the external "standard" extension? Is the > bundled one faster? How much? > > > > -- > 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
