> > No, not based on Linux HFS+, but based on a number of reports I've read
over the past few years, all citing disk I/O as a reason not to use Mac for production or benchmarking. Here's a recent set of benchmarks doing real-world things: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_jaunty_osx&num=1 Mac OS X is better with some tasks, Linux with others. Let's leave the broad generalizations to Slashdot. ;-) -Matt On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[email protected]>wrote: > -- Matthew Ratzloff <[email protected]> wrote > (on Monday, 01 June 2009, 07:44 AM -0700): > > "The Mac I/O system is notoriously slow." > > > > LOL, what? I hope you're not basing that on HFS+ performance on > > Linux, which is marginal at best. > > No, not based on Linux HFS+, but based on a number of reports I've read > over the past few years, all citing disk I/O as a reason not to use Mac > for production or benchmarking. > > > (He's using Windows, by the way.) > > Ah -- missed that part. I could have sworn he'd said Mac at one point. > > > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > -- admirau <[email protected]> wrote > > (on Monday, 01 June 2009, 12:58 AM -0700): > > > Matthew Ratzloff wrote: > > > > So the obvious next step would be to post your PHP CLI include > path. > > > > php -i | grep "include_path" > > > > > > include_path => c:\users\user\www\library;. => c:\users\user\www\ > > library;. > > > > > > library/ > > > Zend/ > > > Doctrine/ > > > PHPTAL/ > > > > > > I use SET > ZEND_TOOL_INCLUDE_PATH_PREPEND="C:\users\user\www\library\Zend\ > > " > > > + autoloader + removed all require_once + upgreded to stable php > 5.2.9-2 > > > > > > This helps a little, but still it is 100 times slower than on > Ubuntu. > > > > The Mac I/O system is notoriously slow. Unfortunately, Zend_Tool > needs > > to scan all class files in your include_path to determine what > classes > > it can consume -- which means opening a lot of files. It may make > sense > > for us to introduce some sort of caching mechanism into Zend_Tool so > > that you only incur a slow-down the first time you call it. > > > > -- > > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > > Project Lead | [email protected] > > Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ > > > > -- > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > Project Lead | [email protected] > Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ >
