On 07.02.2011, at 10:37, Sven Paulus wrote:

> It would be great if there was a (optional?) way to use the universal class 
> loader without calling file_exists() at all:
> 
> If you are running in a high volume environment, you are likely using APC 
> with apc.stat = 0 (see 
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/apc.configuration.php#ini.apc.stat) so that once 
> all the classes are cached in memory, the file system layer doesn't need to 
> get involved any more (no stat(2) calls needed at all).
> 
> However if the universal class loader uses file_exists() every time before 
> doing a require() the main purpose of this optimization is gone, because 
> there still will be a stat(2) system call every time a class is accessed for 
> the first time within a request.
> 
> Having an option to disable file_exists() and use an unambiguous mapping from 
> class name to file name would take a lot of pressure from the IO layer (which 
> is e.g. especially important if you're running the web farm from a NFSv3 
> based filer which doesn't allow client side caching).

good point.
i was also wondering about those calls, but totally forgot how severe they are 
indeed when one uses apc.stat=0.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
[email protected]



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