[PHP-DEV] Re: MOPS Benchmark

2001-12-31 Thread August Zajonc
Mmmm, since this is -dev I'm just going to #include usual extensive benchmark disclaimers case in point, the php and perl version are not written same way aka same logic and data structures. Rewriting the perl version with a while contruct actually speeds it up (and re-inforces the fact that

[PHP-DEV] Re: MOPS Benchmark

2001-12-31 Thread August Zajonc
- Original Message - From: Sebastian Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: php.dev To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: MOPS Benchmark August Zajonc wrote: My results are very close to Andrew Sitnikov's. Guys, please don't

[PHP-DEV] Re: Moving extensions to PECL

2001-12-31 Thread August Zajonc
In conjunction with this, increasing the findability of the PECL might be a good idea. At the least an explict search at php.net either in documentation or whole site should result in at least one hit other than a changelog entry. - AZ - Original Message - From: Jon Parise [EMAIL

[PHP-DEV] Re: Engine 2 mailing list archive

2001-12-30 Thread August Zajonc
That was me :) Fantastic, especially the fact that someone had a copy of the old messages. Might consider reflecting the archive either through the newsgroup interface or marc.theaimsgroup.com... Thanks a lot, been hoping for this for a while. - August - Original Message - From: Andi

[PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
It should be noted that the shootout reflects rather poorly on PHP. Ranks second to last on the overall scorecard, partly because it is missing some tests. On the tests it does perform on a quick check shows it generally uses significantly more CPU time to do various computations then many of the

[PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
Can someone run a few of these tests on a machine with --disable-debug. I'd be curious to know how much of a difference that might make. -AZ -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
This is not really surprising, and the test is not really fair, the PHP code is not written by an experienced php programmer, and thus, would naturally be slower, on person benchmarks like this are simply too dependent on the person writing the code. -Sterling Give me a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
This is not really surprising, and the test is not really fair, the PHP code is not written by an experienced php programmer, and thus, would naturally be slower, on person benchmarks like this are simply too dependent on the person writing the code. -Sterling Give me a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
This is not really surprising, and the test is not really fair, the PHP code is not written by an experienced php programmer, and thus, would naturally be slower, on person benchmarks like this are simply too dependent on the person writing the code. -Sterling Give me a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
Sure, These are not my tests but Doug's. He compiled default so --debug and --inline-optimization not kicking in. Startup cost also counted, but he tried to run long enough to amortize that. n was 16. perl code was something like this. #!/usr/local/bin/perl # $Id: nestedloop.perl,v 1.2

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
performance wise. My sense is that the focus is more feature oriented. - Original Message - From: Zeev Suraski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: August Zajonc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sterling Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Markus Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 9:27 AM

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
- Original Message - From: Sterling Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] The point, if you'd really like to know is that PHP is *not* optimized to do matrix operations (which is one of the examples), or infinitely recursive loops (I'm not even addressing the code at this point)

Re: Re[2]: [2]: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
Mmmm :) I suggest you check out php-gtk. People are writing mail clients in PHP (and they are actually *suprisingly* good). The strengths of PHP (and time spent learning it) in one area carry over to others. We'll have to be wondering about misuse when a CS student writes an operating system in

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
Mike, I would suggest you look at the totally bogus mindcraft benchmarks of linux/apache. Those were orders of magnitude more bogus than anything here, yet ended up being useful. Further, many posters seem to confuse a discussion of PHP's performance with a dicusion of its quality as a language

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
- Original Message - From: Zeev Suraski [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you use caching software, chances are PHP will be faster than Perl even without the optimizer. Interestingly, Perl is getting bytecode caching soon, RFC 301 I think. Probably about time. And it does that without any hassle

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
- Original Message - From: Sterling Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manuel, (I get all the trolls confused, one name makes it easier) These trolls happen to use PHP on a daily basis, and have for years. Always good to see the name calling start early :) Thanks! I wasn't aware

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
- Original Message - From: Zeev Suraski [EMAIL PROTECTED] That RFC is from over a year ago, what makes you think it's going to happen soon..? It still remains to be seen if they do it in a nice, clean transparent way, or the Perl way :) Anyway, the other problems plaguing Perl

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread August Zajonc
:) - August - Original Message - From: Zeev Suraski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: August Zajonc [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 3:51 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout I have to say that taking a look at his site again - he does have

[PHP-DEV] Unbuffered fgetc needed for stdin

2001-12-15 Thread August Zajonc
I've really run into a wall trying to get single charachters from stdin. Something similar to the getchar macro or a real fgetc would be nice. The current behavior is that more than a signle charachter can be typed and fgetc only returns when it sees a \n. I'd like it to return immediatly

RE: [PHP-DEV] Unbuffered fgetc needed for stdin

2001-12-15 Thread August Zajonc
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 1:34 PM To: August Zajonc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unbuffered fgetc needed for stdin This usually depends on how you configured your tty. I think by default it is buffered by the OS until a newline so it's probably not PHP

[PHP-DEV] Re: Proposal for release process (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] 4.1.0)

2001-11-11 Thread August Zajonc
Redirecting bugs to -qa is excellent. -dev is no fun to actually subscribe to with the number of support requests alone coming in. I imagine folks have gotten pretty good at ignoring em but... Let's do it. Be nice to see the possibility of third party comments to bugs as well for confirms,

[PHP-DEV] Re: Random Row From Database

2001-11-11 Thread August Zajonc
How is this -dev? How is it php? This is crossposted. -AZ Hew Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi, I'm trying to pull a random row from my database and display the contents. I know that the code: SELECT * FROM TABLENAME WHERE RAND()

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Wow ! Good news (to me at least) ...

2001-11-10 Thread August Zajonc
st... I promised that anybody that I'll break the neck of anybody that complains about not going with the GPL. Please inform me of any PHP conferences you intend to attend, so I know where to find you :) Zeev At 20:28 08/11/2001, August Zajonc wrote: Why not the GPL? But excellent any w

Re: [PHP-DEV] [UPDATE] NGScan

2001-07-09 Thread August Zajonc
Why not have an abstraction? It would seem this would allow scanners with different licenses to co-exist, and more to the point there's an immediate technical win here, with code already written. Looking over the patch it appears that this wouldn't effect most people unless they

RE: [PHP-DEV] [UPDATE] NGScan

2001-07-09 Thread August Zajonc
scanner the license seems very open? AZ -Original Message- From: Zeev Suraski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 5:10 PM To: August Zajonc Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [UPDATE] NGScan At 23:57 9/7/2001, August Zajonc wrote: Why not have an abstraction

Re: [PHP-DEV] Bug #10319: multipart/form-data does not work with Opera browser

2001-04-13 Thread August Zajonc
I suspect this is likely a browser issue rather than a PHP issue. Can you flesh out a bit what PHP is doing wrong and what needs to be done to fix this "BUG"? Alternatively, you could submit a question to php-general... AZ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Suggestion for bug system

2001-04-08 Thread August Zajonc
What about leveraging an existing bug system? There is Alexandria over at sourceforge which looks like it is still in development, and by enhancing it projects at sourceforge may also benefit. It sometimes seems that some of the best aspects of open source are not taken advantage of. A ton of