Drupal's not the best "scaler" in the world. Install the devel module and see just how much it does to render one page request. When your user community grows "massive" then something you need to "do something else" other than throttle your site to death. You can get a great performance boost with a PECL but that can just overload your database. So I'm looking at "PECLized" version with built-in memcached support. Anyway, I have a strategy and it's coming along. More information when I have some code to actually put out.
(Actually, for me at least, "speed" isn't the only reason. I actually enjoy the world of pain that can sometimes be PECL writing ;)
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Speed. No other reason
Speed. No other reason :)
Drupal's not the best "scaler" in the world. Install the devel module and see just how much it does to render one page request. When your user community grows "massive" then something you need to "do something else" other than throttle your site to death. You can get a great performance boost with a PECL but that can just overload your database. So I'm looking at "PECLized" version with built-in memcached support. Anyway, I have a strategy and it's coming along. More information when I have some code to actually put out.
(Actually, for me at least, "speed" isn't the only reason. I actually enjoy the world of pain that can sometimes be PECL writing ;)