Thanks for your replies, and you're right that I come from a java background.
The profiler shows than another source of overhead for me seems to be Zend_Load. Loading all those helper classes takes about 30% of my total request time. I'm guessing the overhead is from actually doing the parsing of those PHP files. I can't help thinking that PHP can make enormous strides in performance by implementing some kind of persistence between sessions. I will certainly be looking more at Zend_Cache, and probably use a memcached backend in the end. But I'm disappointed that Zend_Cache is not built into DB_Table. Certainly, you don't want it on by default, but having it as an option would be good. Especially if cache invalidation is hooked into the Row save() method. Thanks again, anyway! Steve -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PHP-Apache-context-tp20389722p20392269.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
