Cliff Woolley wrote: >On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > > > >> A user posted [1] a "benchmark" today in the German PHP Newsgroup [2] >> stating that Apache 2.0 and PHP (current HEAD) are about 20% slower >> than Apache 1.3. >> >> Are there any official benchmarks out there? I can't quite believe >> this... >> >> > >None that I know of. But I'm not terribly surprised by this... Apache 2.0 >itself tends to be a bit faster than 1.3 depending on the configuration, >though the apache2filter for PHP is nowhere near what I would consider >"optimal" use of the capabilities of filters. Unfortunately, making them >more optimal requires a bit of extra funtionality out of Zend that it >doesn't currently seem to provide. (Namely, we need to be able to give >Zend's lexer buffers to scan rather than handing it a file descriptor.) >Aaron and I keep meaning to work on a patch for that but haven't gotten a >chance yet. Not sure how that impacts performance, but it definitely >impacts the capabilities over what they SHOULD be with 2.0. I'm sure >there's room for optimization in there, too... if someone could do a >profiling run on it (I don't have the best setup for that), I'd be willing >to write some patches to try to optimize the worst offenders. >
I can do some profiling--probably this weekend--if someone can describe a good test case. --Brian
