[ciapug] Accelerating your PHP

[Tony Bibbs]

It's probably worth noting that most optimizations we find here 
regardless of programming (.NET, Java, etc) are done via 
configuration...not code.  Network settings and database connection 
management are the two biggies.  That's why stuff like the Valgrind 
suite (particularly callgrind) is useful over, say, the PHP profiler in 
Zend Studio.

http://valgrind.org/info/tools.html

--Tony

carl-olsen at mchsi.com wrote:
> 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.