RE: [PHP] $_SESSION vs Database Call

Vail, Warren on Thursday, March 25, 2004 4:40 PM said: > Answer was; only the paranoid > would notice the difference ;-). Course our user population was > relatively small (100 - 500 concurrently signed on). i don't even think rainman would notice 10 milliseconds.

RE: [PHP] $_SESSION vs Database Call

The difference between the two probably works out to less than 10 milliseconds on most servers, from a quick study that I ran on some HP servers that were brand new last summer, with the faster times using the filesystem. Course, the flexibility gained in managing the database version caused us to