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DevShed: Benchmarking Applications with PHP
DevShed has posted the first part of a new series looking at benchmarking performance in your PHP applications.
If you’re anything like me, you have had your head spinning with questions […] these and other dilemmas (add your own to the list) sometimes make peace of mind a nearly impossible goal.
The tutorial talks about a few […]
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DevShed: Using Timers to Benchmark PHP Applications
DevShed has posted the second article in their series looking at benchmarking your PHP scripts. This time they look at the use of “timers” to check on script execution length.
Since you already know how to create timer functions and classes, in this tutorial, I’ll create some concrete examples that show where these timing mechanisms can […]
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PHP Connection Pooling Whitepaper with Benchmark Available - Christopher Jones
A new Technical Whitepaper “PHP Scalability and High Availability” is out on OTN
The whitepaper talks about the changes in the PHP OCI8 1.3 extension, explains some of the concepts behind DRCP and FAN, and gives best practices and tuning tips.
It includes a new PHP benchmark which shows up to 20,000 connections being handled by Oracle […]
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Christopher Jones’ Blog: PHP Connection Pooling Whitepaper with Benchmark Available
Christopher Jones has pointed out a new whitepaper that’s been published by oracle about the scalability the connection pooling affords for current versions of PHP.
The whitepaper talks about the changes in the PHP OCI8 1.3 extension, explains some of the concepts behind DRCP and FAN, and gives best practices and tuning tips. It includes a […]
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Ilia Kantor’s Blog: Pluggable/Tunable Template Benchmark
Antony Dovgal has pointed out a set of benchmarks from Ilia Kantor comparing several templating methods in PHP - eighteen of them in all.
He has the page set up to where you can run your own benchmarks and see the results, making the settings like variable count and interactions easy to change. Included in his […]
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Larry Garfield’s Blog: Benchmarking magic
Larry Garfield has put together some benchmarks based around a request he had from other developers (the “performance czars”) as to how the magic functions in PHP5 would perform in the new environment.
Already, there is talk of how, and if, to leverage PHP 5’s object handling now that we don’t need to deal with the […]
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Sebastian Bergmann’s Blog: Benchmark of PHP Branches 3.0 through 5.3-CVS
Sebastian Bergmann has posted the results of some benchmarking on the compilation he’s done on the branches of PHP from version 3.0 all the way up to 5.3-CVS.
As people keep asking me for an update to my previous benchmarks (PHP / GCC / ICC Benchmark, PHP 5.1 / GCC Benchmark (Update), and PHP 5.1 Performance, […]
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