Richard Lynch wrote: > > > On Fri, January 25, 2008 5:07 am, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> Per Jessen wrote: >>> I know how to do multiple queries - the key issue in my question was >>> how >>> to do them concurrently (i.e. in parallel). >> >> So you want to make PHP multithreaded??? > > No, he wants to leverage the multi-threaded MySQL DB in the background > to have *IT* running several queries at once.
Exactly. > I suspect the overhead of bridging to/from that other thing would > dwarf the query times, unless you're running queries that are too long > to start with... They are too long. I have e.g. two queries that each take 30 seconds, so a total of 60 seconds. Running in parallel would reduce runtime by 50%. > In which case you should queue them up in a list of "jobs" and notify > the users when they are finished instead of making the user wait > around. Yeah, but that's just like running off-line reports and having them sent by email. It kind of ruins the idea of having the information available on-line in real-time. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
