Wow, great, now it's faster. Thanks Matthew. Isn't automatic_serialization true by default in Zend_Cache? Why isn't this implemented in Zend_XmlRpc_Server_Cache?
Regards, Saša Stamenković On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[email protected]>wrote: > -- umpirsky <[email protected]> wrote > (on Thursday, 23 July 2009, 12:32 AM -0700): > > I have XML-RPC client-server architecture witl Zend_XmlRpc on both, > client > > and server side. My app with XML-RPC is 3-5 times slower with XML-RPC > > comparing to same app with pure PHP calls - pretty slow, huh. Some > methods > > produce very large XML so I needed to page results in some cases and send > in > > chunks. I attach only one server class with near 100 methods. > > > > I tried to optimize it with caching server definition like on > > > http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.xmlrpc.server.html#zend.xmlrpc.server.use.case7 > > , but it turned out I got even slower calls then without cache. Any idea > > why? > > > > I gained some speed by setting _skipSystemLookup to true. Do you think > there > > can be some consequences? If I pass empty array for ex? > > > > Any general tips or idea how I can speed up my server? > > This is a known problem, actually, and is due to how PHP handles > reflection. > > There is a way around it that's more performant, but not documented. In > 1.7, we created Zend_Server_Definition, which is simply a value object > containing the class => method mappings used by the various servers. > Since it's a value object, it does not rely on reflection, and as a > result, when autoloading is on, can be a ton more performant. > > Instead of following the directions currently in the manual, do the > following: > > * Use autoloading. This will ensure you don't have to load all classes > attached to the server on every request > * Cache the return value of getDispatchTable(). This caches a > Zend_Server_Definition, which is a value object with simply string > names for the classes and methods (not callbacks or reflection) > * On subsequent requests, pass the cached dispatch table to > loadFunctions(). > > It might look like this, then: > > require_once 'Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php'; > Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance(); > > $server = new Zend_XmlRpc_Server(); > > // Fill in your own front/back-end options. Just make sure that > // autoserialization is on. > $cache = Zend_Cache::factory('Core', 'File', $frontendOpts, > $backendOpts); > > if (!$definition = $cache->load('xmlrpc-dispatch-table')) { > // Do your server definition here... > // ... > // and then cache the dispatch table > $cache->save($server->getDispatchTable(), 'xmlrpc-dispatch-table'); > } else { > // Otherwise, load the server definition > $server->loadFunctions($definition); > } > > echo $server->handle(); > > I haven't tested the above, but there *are* unit tests for passing > Zend_Server_Definition to loadFunctions(), so the theory has some basis. > :) > > -- > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > Project Lead | [email protected] > Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ >
