[ciapug] Accelerating your PHP

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

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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