On 16 Jul 2005, at 14:04, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Hello Dominik,
>
> DS> That's not true, of course you can build "non-web" apps with  
> PHP [0] -
> DS> starting with simple scripts up to GTK bindings <http:// 
> gtk.php.net/>
> DS> you have quite a lot of possibilities.
>
> I think the killer argument against this is that a php script never
> frees memory, so it is not useable for many non web applications.

While this may have been true in the past, I don't believe this is  
current behavior.  Getting FastCGI + PHP working has been discussed  
several times on the FastCGI developers mailing list.  If PHP never  
frees memory, it would be completely unsuitable for use with FastCGI.

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