[ciapug] Accelerating your PHP

[carl-olsen at mchsi.com]

It sounds like PHP 6 is going to have the compiler included, so this is going to become a moot point at some time in the near future.  For now, it seems like the frame rate analogy is applicable.  If you can't notice the improvement in performance, there's not much reason to improve it.  I'm glad to hear that PHP 6 is going to remove this kind of analysis from the equation and simply make it part of the package, like Java and .Net (where the compiler is part of the framework).  I'm just extremely glad I learned PHP.  After learning ASP, finding out all the stuff I couldn't do with it (like file uploads), and seeing it get dumped on the trashpile of programming languages, it's great to see PHP constantly being improved and integrated into other products.
-------------- Original message from "Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU>: -------------- 


> On Thursday 02 November 2006 17:32, Carl Olsen wrote: 
> >As you can tell, some of us have to deal with server administrators. 
> >When someone tells me I need to prove a need for compiling code, it 
> >makes me think I should be spending my time doing something else. 
> 
> Sorry about that. But a PHP accelerator is something i think should only 
> be used if absolutely necessary because it has the potential to 
> introduce bugs. And right now the main web server is not suffering from 
> performance issues. On the webmail server i ended up having to turn of 
> the accelerator's optimizer because it seemed to cause strange 
> failures. Since most of the performance boost of the accelerator comes 
> from caching the compiled code and not from optimizing it, that wasn't 
> too much of a loss. Also i'm not sure how easy it would be to make it 
> work on Solaris. So far my experience has been that Solaris is the 
> Windows version of Unix: everything is just a little more cumbersome 
> than it really needs to be. 
> 
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