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Richard Quadling wrote:
> If, at the least, the files was a simple $a_Array, which could be
> written using ...
>
> file_put_contents('./index.cache', ,'<?php $a_Index = ' .
> var_export($a_Index, True) . '; ?>');
>
> sort of thing, then you could just include it and the index would be
> available instantly. No need for file io parsing.
That's an interesting technique. However, PHP's source code parser is
quite a bit more complicated than what our index format needs, so it's
quite possible that the fact that our custom format's simplicity would
offset PHP's performance gains from being written in C (I suppose we'd
have to benchmark to find out, but I remember MediaWiki's developers
talking about this).
The other implementation difficulty is getting the references to point
to the right locations in var_export, which is probably impossible,
which means we have to make a copy of $IDs in order to process in order
a non-referenced structure (alternatively, reversibly de-reference and
reference the children's entries).
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