Re: Performance Hints?

Holy smoke! 46 included files with 32000 lines of code in a web page?! You're not a former Microsoft programmer are you? ;) There's a couple of things to spring to my mind when I read your email - your system taking half a second to open 46 files off the disk has very little to do with php - it sounds like your application would still be slow (for a web app) even if it was written in C - can you possibly cut down on what you're including, or at least conditionally? - any insanity is not due to your language choice in this case, but possibly more to what you're trying to do on a per-page view basis :) jason > Hi, > > I'm having *major* performance problems with a very large web > application, and was wondering if anyone could be kind enough to > offer a few suggestions... > > I'm finding that a *huge* bottleneck is just parsing the PHP code, > before it even gets executed. I have a test page that includes > several files, and many of the included files include other files. > In total, I have 46 files being included in a page with a total of > 32,000 lines of code. Just including these files (before even > executing the code) is taking at least .5 seconds. Note that this > time does not include the execution of any code, it's just including > class definitions, etc., to be used later in the page. > > We have been using PHP 3, but are just now starting to experiment > with PHP 4 in hopes that it will help. But there is no noticable > difference thus far. Any hints??? Am I insane for having such a > large project in PHP? > > Any advice would be welcome. > > Thanks!!! > > John