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Subject: phar development update
From: greg@chiaraquartet.net (Gregory Beaver)

Hi all,

A quick note on significant improvements to phar committed recently:

 * tar-based archives now fully support metadata and signatures,
bringing them in line with more of the features of phar-based phar archives.
 * true asymmetric signing support using OpenSSL private/public key pairs
 * phar.cache_list provides pre-parsing of phar manifests at MINIT, with
performance enhancement that matches on-disk for non-APC and improves
perf to 19 req/sec (in-phar) vs. 28 req/sec (on-disk) in my benching of
phpMyAdmin with APC.  This performance benefit only accrues with
webservers that run MINIT once and then spawn other processes/threads
with RINIT.

Also, Scott is working on a patch to sqlite that will allow using
databases mounted inside a phar archive with a phar url, which will
greatly simplify pharring apps that use sqlite.

Greg