hash table

In this recent blog post nikic takes an in-depth look at how large PHP arrays really are - how memory is used in the creation and management of these handy PHP variable types.

This week there are two big events for the MySQL community: The O'Reilly MySQL Conference and Oracle Collaborate run by the IOUG.

At these events our Engineering VP, Tomas Ulin, announced the latest milestone releases for our main products.

MySQL 5.6 and MySQL Cluster 7.1 as well as our new Windows Installer. There's lots of cool stuff in there but one feature really excited me: MySQL 5.6 contains a memcache interface for accessing InnoDB tables.

Note: I’ve written on this topic before, but thought the subject warranted further more detailed discussion and a more comprehensive and up-to-date set of benchmarks.

Hence, this post and this presentation.

Enjoy.

Do you know how BitTorrent works?

I mean, really know the technology behind it?

Andrei Zmievski has written a new post about a new extension he's worked up (out of curiosity for the technology) - the pecl/bloomy extension.