-- Matthew Lurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 09:17 AM -0700): > I recently noticed that a form using Zend_Captcha_Image was taking 15-20 > seconds to load. I reviewed my code but couldn't find the source of the > issue though it was obviously related to the Captcha element. So, I setup a > form in a test environment that does nothing more than load an image > Captcha. The trace is 189,253 lines and the page takes over 12 seconds to > load. This wasn't always the case. Did I miss something or is this a bug?
A couple of things: first off, GD and imagick typically suffer a pretty large performance hit when you have a debugger enabled in your PHP profile. Try benching with no debugger enabled (disable it in your php.ini and restart the web server). Second, what OS are you on, and what version of PHP? -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
