[Typo3-dev] Typo3 alternative to cron (?)

[Martin T. Kutschker]

Mathias Schreiber [wmdb] wrote:
> Suman Debnath wrote:
> 
> 
> Since HTTP is a stateless protocoll the only thing you can do is to call 
> a certain (very very performant) function that checks for things that 
> trigger the sending of the mail.

Or use sleep().

But if you have a PHP script that never ends you should worry about 
memory consumption. I fear that an endless script will suck up all 
memory, if you don't take care.

Anyway, why do you want to avoid cron?

Masi