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Re: [PHP4BETA] Performance question From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 12/23/99

David,

It really depends what your scripts do. If they don't have a lot of PHP
code and mostly connect to databases then that is where your overhead is
and PHP 4 won't be able to help too much. Also by default the Beta version
(because it is a development version) is compiled in debug mode.
Configuring it with --disable-debug should speed things up a bit if you
haven't done so already.

Andi

At 04:38 PM 12/22/99 -0500, David Munsey-Kano wrote:
>Well, I compiled and installed the beta 4 on my poor little DEC
>Alphastation 255/233. When I did some quick and dirty timings on my
>Oracle database application with the Beta version 4 as compared to php
>3.0.12 (both running as part of Apache 1.3.6) they came out very close
>to the same. (Well within the accuracy of my finger on my stopwatch :-)
>
>search "fair" in all
>php4: 6.2 seconds
>php3: 5.9
>
>search "dartmouth" in all
>php4: 6.8
>php3: 6.7
>
>search "dartmouth" in title
>php4: 4.8
>php3: 4.7
>
>I know that the above test is probably spending much of its time in the
>oracle ConText search engine, although the same search done from within
>SQL*Plus *is* much quicker...
>
>Luckily, I'll be moving to a faster Unix box as soon as we can get
>Oracle installed there so I can rebuild apache/php for that platform.
>Maybe that will get my searches back under the 2-3 second level again. I
>am also planning on trying a different database schema to simplify the
>sql/ConText queries that are required for my searches. But I already
>know that won't save more than a second or two, because I can simulate
>those results with my existing schema.
>
>Thanks for all your help. I'm going to sign-off the list for now, as I
>am not developing version 4 and this list has quite a bit of traffic! If
>you reply to this, please reply to my individual message too and I will
>do the same.
>
>Sincerely, David
>-----------
>David Munsey-Kano wrote:
> >
> > rasmus <email protected> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi! I am new to this list and have a question. I have had some
> > > > experience programming ColdFusion and PHP3 and the performance (at
> least
> > > > with my servers) of ColdFusion is superior. How much better is the
> > > > performance of PHP version 4 as compared to PHP3? I am doing Oracle
> > > > database programming.
> > >
> > > What type of server are you on? NT? If so, you are comparing apples and
> > > oranges. Try PHP on a Unix server. PHP 4 will provide better
> performance
> > > on NT, but with PHP 3 the Windows version is really just for prototyping
> > > applications. PHP 3 on Windows (and NT itself if you want my opinion) is
> > > not a production quality solution. PHP 4 attempts to become production
> > > quality even on Windows and you should try out the ISAPI version if you
> > > want to do comparisons on NT.
> > >
> > > -Rasmus
> >
> > --
> > David Munsey-Kano
> > Dartmouth College
> > (603) 646-1320
>
>--
>David Munsey-Kano
>Dartmouth College
>(603) 646-1320
>
>The world is full of zanies and fools, who don't believe in sensible
>rules, and don't believe what sensible people say, and because these
>daft and dewey-eyed dolts keep building up impossible hopes, impossible
>things keep happening everyday!
>
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