13 February 2012
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I gave a short talk on mysqlnd_uh and the whole mysqlnd extension as SheffPHP. Not sure how interesting people found it. I think many people switch off when databases are mentioned. Here are some slides any way. Mysqlnd uh from … Continue reading
22 November 2011
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One of the uses for mysqlnd’s plugin architecture that I found most interesting was query caching on the client. The traditional MySQL Query Cache The MySQL query cache is a really nice simple feature which helps speed up repeated queries … Continue reading
4 October 2011
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Forking the PHP process requires the pcntl extension. This extension is limited to *nix operating systems. Once installed the key function is pcntl_fork(). The manual contains this excellent example of its use $pid = pcntl_fork(); if ($pid == -1) { … Continue reading
3 October 2011
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While working on a script to generate fractals in PHP I wanted to try and run the intensive calculations in parallel. The script I came up with has a fair amount of overhead in spawning and managing a thread since … Continue reading
25 September 2011 by nat | 0 comments
Here’s a video I showed a couple of times while talking about escape time fractals in PHP. The video was made by using PHP to generate the mandlebrot set set centred on a point and the decreasing the scale logarithmically.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pAUIWYVXXM