It's this term gets me every time: "greatly reduce the code overhead".
There is no such overhead which has any impact on performance. Once the files are present on the server, their overall total size is irrelevant. The only size that then matters at that point is what is read from disk, and loaded into RAM - which is certainly not the whole framework ;). I think a lot of people are bound to make comparisons to PEAR as a code repository. The purpose of the framework isn't simply to implement MVC, it's to implement MVC packaged with high value commonly required components which you may optionally utilise. Maybe not everyone will need an optional component like Zend_Feed, but a lot of other people will. Enough that leaving it out would be inconvenient for many users. There's quite a lot of value attached to optional, loosely coupled components for many developers. Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.patternsforphp.com ----- Original Message ---- From: till <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Zuhair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 10:42:40 AM Subject: Re: [fw-general] ZF is ubeatable BUT... On 7/21/07, Zuhair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (...) > Correct me if I am wrong. You're not "wrong" - just your own point of view I guess. I never get the size argument really. For one, even 2 EUR/month shared webhosting comes with at least 1 GB of space. If you realize that 2 EUR/month cannot offer you the quality of service you are looking for, maybe spend 20 and you are left with maybe 30-40 GB? As others have pointed out - you can always go through the framework and remove components which are not needed. But in general, a new server is more cost effective than you quencing every bit of performance from a couple PHP scripts. ;-) I guess you also have to take into account that your app is 2 MB because the framework actually does things for you. ;-) Till ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/
