Re: [OT] of very off topic marketing question

2009-03-23 Thread Bill Davidson
Peter Crowther wrote: From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Peter Crowther wrote: I'm also particularly amused by the topmost set of bars in figure 2, given how proud the perl-ites are of their RE library and performance ;-). You didn't expect for a minute that this would remain

Re: [OT] of very off topic marketing question

2009-03-23 Thread Joseph Millet
Right, I apologize too, never had to work with php multi-threading and looking at it existing framework wrappings don't look this good at first glance as it's only meant either for compiled code or command line exec, for C-like expected behaviour. Some Frameworks such as Copix provide script

RE: [OT] of very off topic marketing question

2009-03-22 Thread Peter Crowther
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Peter Crowther wrote: I'm also particularly amused by the topmost set of bars in figure 2, given how proud the perl-ites are of their RE library and performance ;-). You didn't expect for a minute that this would remain unanswered, did you ?

[OT] RE: very off topic marketing question

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Crowther
From: Christopher Schultz [ch...@christopherschultz.net] I wonder how the folks over at Wikipedia feel about their PHP-based system. I suspect they get a significant amount of load. And, indeed, Facebook. I'm not sure who gets more hits! There are some big, big PHP systems out there, and

Re: [OT] of very off topic marketing question

2009-03-21 Thread Leon Rosenberg
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:02 PM, André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com wrote: Peter Crowther wrote: [...] I'm also particularly amused by the topmost set of bars in figure 2, given how proud the perl-ites are of their RE library and performance ;-). You didn't expect for a minute that this would

[OT] of very off topic marketing question

2009-03-21 Thread André Warnier
Peter Crowther wrote: [...] I'm also particularly amused by the topmost set of bars in figure 2, given how proud the perl-ites are of their RE library and performance ;-). You didn't expect for a minute that this would remain unanswered, did you ? First, the perl-ites would answer that the

Re: [OT] of very off topic marketing question

2009-03-21 Thread Joseph Millet
[...] Where blast() iterates thru several thousand records, which are sent to a third-party site for processing. The third-party site allows no more than 5 connections per second, so I just call Thread.sleep(1000) on every 5th record. It is very simple, very elegant and very fast now that some

Re: [OT] of very off topic marketing question

2009-03-21 Thread Jonathan Mast
OK, so what would it look like? Show me a comparable snippet of PHP code. How does one enable this feature if its off by default? Why is it off by default? I guessing it opens up security issues and/or has side effects. Not conducive to enterprise-level computing, imho. What is PEAR? Is that

[OT] RE: very off topic marketing question

2009-03-20 Thread Peter Crowther
From: Martin Gainty [mailto:mgai...@hotmail.com] Apache is hamstrung by the number of prefork processes it can spawn.. Yes. For this job, it's hamstrung by the PHP process being single-threaded and therefore having to spawn and keep multiple copies (each with its own address space) to handle