Re: zend optimizer benchmarking

Charles Killian wrote: > Ha! It is me. My real question is whether Zend Optimizer does any > optimization outside the of calls to the timer class. > Here's the reason: > I wrap every php script in a call to the Timer Class and at the very end > output the elapsed time. > So do I. :) > > When Zend Optimizer is installed and running it the Timer shows a script > slowdown of approximately .01 sec per script. Now these are scripts with a > lot loops so theoretically they should speed up. > I guess it depends on what you mean by 'a lot'. One other way of testing this would be to remove the timer class and benchmark the page with ab or some other benchmark program. Way back before the timer class (!) when we first played with the optimizer, it did in fact slow some pages down, per ab. We're talking on the order of 5% or so, but other pages' generation and delivery time went up anywhere from 5-30%. Never quite saw the 40-100% mentioned on the zend site, but these machines were pretty fast anyway - there may not have been a great percentage to gain. > > But call me crazy- even though the timer says a slow down the page seems to > load faster in the browser. Does the Zend optimizer take some of the load > off of the web server speeding up its response time? Or: what the hell is > going on? > No answer here... :( > > Charles ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961