Evgeny Stepanischev asked me yesterday why there is no PECL extension providing interface to Trivial DB (TDB), which is used in Samba. I didn't know what to answer, so I... wrote it =)
The TDB itself looks like a perfect solution for temporary data storage (caches, sessions and the like), but it might be also useful for something more complex, taking into account its transactions support.

Being curious of how it would perform comparing to Memcached on localhost (using PECL/memcache, of course) I did a quick benchmark.
It's purely syntetic (just 1 000 000 operations in a loop), but the numbers show clear difference.

These are the results:


Impressive, huh?

This is so natural - one thing dies and gives way to something new.
So goodbye PHP4, happy birthday PHP5 and hello PHP6.
This was long expected, but I'm still excited about it.

Those who know don't speak. Those who speak don't know.
You can see this live in internals - lots of unknown people discussing their view on the future of PHP, even though most of them haven't ever seen the sources or (god forbid) never contributed a line.

Guys, if you really want to contribute to PHP project, send me some .phpt tests, no need to add yet another email to the endless thread (nobody is going to read it anyway).