> Hmmm...
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> According to my tests, pconnect is much more faster than connect. I
> don't have exact numbers, but on my notebook (WinXP, Apache2, php5,
> Firebird 1.5.x) and some unix/linux machines pconnect() beats connect()
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> It's because (AFAIK) each PHP script doesn't need to wait to connect,
> PHP's ibase lib is already connected. And connection is the bottleneck
> of each script (a result of my tests).
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> Thats the reason, why I use pconnect.
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> Michal

I didn't find that - especially when you take the human process into account
and the normal latency of the internet.
If I did a thousand connect/disconnect Vs a pconnect scenario maybe.
Also at one stage, there was a bug in pconnect which prevented pconnect from
using connections already in place. It would create another connection
anyway and the unused one eventually timed-out.
This may be fixed now - or maybe it never was a real bug in the first
instance. I think I read in the help file - I can't remember now. In any
case I can't determine any difference in performance on my websites using p
and not p so I stick to not p.
Alan

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> > I never use pconnect - that's faster.
> > Alan
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