[PHP] Re: speeding up PHP

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Furman
When I started looking into this I was told ASP was slow at processing very large databases (and I think also large numbers of users) but I don't think this becomes a problem unless the site is extremely large or gets an awful lot of traffic. Merlin wrote: Hi there, I do have a performance qu

Re: [PHP] Re: speeding up PHP

2004-02-10 Thread Galen
Yes, compression is key. Faster servers with HUGE internet connections serving COMPRESSED content make sites feel snappy. Look under microtime() in the php manual for an example that will benchmark how much time your page actually takes to produce... you'll probably find it incredibly small...

[PHP] Re: speeding up PHP

2004-02-10 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, On 02/09/2004 11:36 PM, Merlin wrote: I do have a performance question regarding php processing. There are some sites on the net like google, heise and others which are incredible fast in response time. Of course companies like google are running totally other systems, but there are smal

[PHP] Re: Speeding up PHP or MySQL

2002-07-24 Thread Julio Nobrega
Mysql 4 can cache queries. You can try using temporary tables, so you can break up joins. Also, perhaps making a "rawdata" table placeholder. Put a timestamp field on your columns. Make the query and store somewhere the query itself, the results and the time they were last modified. Then when