I think a good example of php-technology would be symfony project + caching in memcached
it can be made to work really fast On 11/21/07, Nuno Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was assigned a class work in the university to compare web > applications architectures, mainly PHP vs > Java+Hibernate+Struts/Stripes. I'll need to provide some benchmarks > for some typical web apps. > > Well, I'm a bit afraid that Java may win, because of the usage of > Hibernate, which caches sql stuff in memory. The first request is > usually very slow (10 seconds or more), but following requests are > much faster. > > So, do you have any suggestions for which PHP application architecture > should I discuss? Like a standard pdo-based app, with files being > generated and stored on the server, possibly bypassing php completly > on the following request (like livedocs). Use a particular PHP > framework (cake, zend, ...)? Any useful case-studies that you may have > are also welcome. > > (Although I participate in the PHP development for a few years, the > websites I run have at most 1.5 million page views per month, so > performance isn't an issue, hence my lack of experience in scaling PHP > apps..) > > > Thanks, > Nuno > > P.S.: Sorry for the off-topic, but I didn't find a better place to ask this. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Alexey Zakhlestin http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php