[ciapug] Zend / MS partnership

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On Thursday 02 November 2006 07:57, Carl Olsen wrote:
>Overall, I find PHP easier to use than ASP.NET or Java.  I also
> realize that I'm not compiling any of my PHP code, so I'm trading
> ease of use for efficiency.

If you're too worried about the inefficiency of PHP, it is possible to 
use a PHP accelerator. Such a piece of software caches the compiled PHP 
code after the first time it is run. So subsequent calls to the same 
code will not require it to be recompiled. Depending on the code in 
question, this can improve performance up to 10 times. The application 
i've used a PHP accelerator on (a webmail server that gets hammered by 
traffic all day long) sped it up by a factor of 3.5.

I would guess that running PHP with an accelerator would probably be 
comparable in speed to Java running in a modern JVM. If you want much 
faster you'd probably have to use a low-level language like C, but down 
that road lies madness.

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