Re: The INI framework in PHP 4.0

On Fri, 26 May 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote: > On Fri, 26 May 2000, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > > > How did you benchmark? I find it hard to believe that 12 hash lookups, > > > malloc's and memcpy's on every request, don't make a significant > > > difference. Was that time you checked it after the session module was in > > > place and with that slow startup? > > > > Sure. > > > > The benchmark was created to show the potential benefit of reducing > > startup costs. Or expressed in a script, <? echo "hello world"; ?> > > > > While there are lies, damn lies and benchmarks, I was not tricky enough > > to produce a benchmark which showed more than 3% or so difference. > > You tested in a 'real' environment? With something like 'ab'? A 'real' benchmark environment with 'real' computers and a 'real' web server and 'real' clients like 'http_load' and 'ab'. Now let's get rid of whatever clutters the code.