Hello, Peter Illes wrote: > > Some more details: > > We are implementing a Web Services server (essentially SOAP server) in PHP > and one of the calls has to return a data packet as XML so we want to > accumulate the response in a string variable and then return it (optionally > logginig it for security reasons). > > We would like to avoid using external files for the accumulation, since we > need some good performance and typically disk v.s. memory cannot compete > (the server has enough RAM;-).
If you were using a Unix OS, maybe you could use the shared memory extension. I wonder if isn't there anything like that for Windows. Alternatively you may want to establish a persistent connection to local TCP socket and send your log data to it so a daemon could collect it periodically. Regards, Manuel Lemos > > "Peter Illes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Hi, > > > > This is the second post of this problem since I did not get any answer for > > the first. Please, could someone out there help? Thanks in advance... > > > > I wonder if there is any performance tuning newsgroup/faq/whatever related > > to PHP. I searchead to no avail... > > > > Anyway, my current mind boggler is: we are accumulating a large (~400k) > XML > > response in a string before sending it out by adding little pieces a time > > (like 10-20 chars). Now this results in very bad performance -- most > > probably due to the fact that the string is enlarged/re-allocated > thousands > > of times. I would love to pre-allocate a big buffer for the string so that > > performance gets better (something like SetLength() in Delphi). How can I > do > > this? > > > > Xuse me if the answer is much too trivial, I'm a newbie in PHPland :-) > > > > Thanks for any suggestion, > > > > Peter > > > > > > > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
