DaWei

We're waiting on you to write it for us .

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Sane

No thanks. I'll just scuttle back over to my corner, hide under my box, and keep toying with Python.

I've decided to be ignorant to what the industry declares is "hip". One of these days, people will stop overating PHP, and become more informed of the alternatives! ONE OF THESE DAYS!!

*raises his fists to the sky* STEEEEEEEELAAAAAAAAA!!!!

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Godmode

Well, I don't know about php's sessions.. Maybe there's no way you can control ram.. But e.g. I have own session system which uses MySQL, and MySQL RAM preferences you can control. Mainly SQL uses RAM smartly enought so you don't have to even pay attention to such things. That's one way you could do it.

jsilver608

yes, this is possible.

You could use message queues or shared memory, both are supported by PHP (only on *nix systems though).

you could even use shared memory in php and access that same piece of memory from another program.

Details here: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.sem.php
Tutorial: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004...ed_memory.html

and to respond to this: "Since PHP can not do this, it's limiting a lot of potential speed ups in efficiency. PHP could get nowhere near the speed of Python+CherryPy in some situations."

This may be true, but shared memory doesn't scale very well. For high performance, it's best to use something like memcached (slashdot and livejournals use it to scale their sites to many different servers).

Link: http://www.danga.com/memcached/

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