PEAR and mysql_* performance

[cydeways06]

I am trying to decide whether or not it should use PEAR or just the regular mysql functions to buld my application. There is a chance that the database could be switched to something other than mysql but if using PEAR entails loosing performance than I think I should stick with just mysql_*. Any thoughts on the topic would be helpful. Or if anyone has seen some benchmarking that would be great also.

Mike
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[ajmoore]

I haven't seen any benchmarks to compare the two, but I have used both on a fairly large project(database of 120,000+ records)..The original version of the project was done using the standard mysql_* functions, but I've since built a new version using PEAR. The difference in performance is extremely small if in fact there is a difference. If there's a chance that you will be switching to another database down the road then PEAR is the way to go...Much easier to just change a datasource variable than it is to go back and recode all of your database functionality.