I have spent quite a bit of time on things that many people have felt are "worthless" (Memcache, APC Cache, core cache serialization patch) and have had a good performance impact. It is my area of interest. I apologize if it offends anyone for posting to this list about it. Is there a better place to post about this stuff?
Hi Steve, I didn't mean to offend, sorry if it came over like that. My point is, like yourself, I'm a performance junkie and when a see something that looks like I'll get a "hit" I investigate. As part of this (and for other reasons), I often spend time in both PHP and MySQL internals. A quick review of the code often tells me if something is worth following up on. In this case I can't see it. There are other places to look also (Jeff Eaton just posted a good email) but this wouldn't personally be high on my list. But keep up the good work, as a friend of mine once said, "once those cycles have passed you by you just can't get them back again" ;) regards --Andy (AjK)