Make php faster?

[Frank de Bot]

hi,

I've been recently testing a little few things with php (mainly speed).
On thing I've noticed is that php is incredible SLOW to start up.
Compared a perl script and php script aside of each other. In case of my
system it took perl roughly 6ms , but php over 30ms . php only got
activated things like MySQL, ming en pdflib.
Ok, the runnings time are pretty short, but I try to make things as
efficient as possible. Mainly because it is for a production server and
can't predict what customers will do.
Are there ways to get php at least to catch up with perl's speed?

Thanks in advanced,

Frank de Bot

[rush]

Re: Make php faster?

"Frank de Bot" <ppi_doesnt_lik e_@spam_inhis_e mail_searchy.ne t> wrote in
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> On thing I've noticed is that php is incredible SLOW to start up.
> Compared a perl script and php script aside of each other. In case of my
> system it took perl roughly 6ms , but php over 30ms . php only got
> activated things like MySQL, ming en pdflib.
> Ok, the runnings time are pretty short, but I try to make things as
> efficient as possible. Mainly because it is for a production server and
> can't predict what customers will do.
> Are there ways to get php at least to catch up with perl's speed?[/color]

If you can install stuff on the server, you can try Zend performance suite,
or ionCube PHP Accelerator. They can significantly slash script load times
since they cache allready parsed code for the script. This has really
beneficall effect on larger scripts.

rush
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[Manuel Lemos]

Re: Make php faster?

Hello,

On 10/08/2003 11:46 PM, Frank de Bot wrote:[color=blue]
> I've been recently testing a little few things with php (mainly speed).
> On thing I've noticed is that php is incredible SLOW to start up.
> Compared a perl script and php script aside of each other. In case of my
> system it took perl roughly 6ms , but php over 30ms . php only got
> activated things like MySQL, ming en pdflib.
> Ok, the runnings time are pretty short, but I try to make things as
> efficient as possible. Mainly because it is for a production server and
> can't predict what customers will do.
> Are there ways to get php at least to catch up with perl's speed?[/color]

You may want to try Turck MMCache caching extension. There are also
other caching extension, some very expensive. This one is Open Source
and it is claimed to be the fastest.

http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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