Hi David, On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 6:19 PM, David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm writing an application in PHP which does a SOAP request. But the > problem is that the request is slow at times. It ca take 5-6 seconds to get > a SOAP response sometimes. I've considered caching the data and poll to get > it. But then I wondered what to do with the data once I get it with respect > to performance concerns. It's it better to write the 20 records to a file > or a MySQL TABLE? I considered MySQL cause it would make the programming > job easier to use it for retrieval, but that's just my personal > preference. Or does it make any difference? The final result will be > displayed on a web page and don't want to keep the short-attention span > user waiting. Saving/pulling directly to disk will always be faster, but as you say, is it worth the extra programming complexity? I'd say it comes down to volume - if you need to handle millions of these cached files, then concocting something to save to disk or even memory/memcache could be optimal. But if the traffic is low, then in either case there probably won't be much difference, aside from complexity and bugs :) H
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