note 106239 added to function.gzcompress

Did some simple benchmarking of gzcompress() this morning on a lightly-loaded Fedora 12 server with an AMD Phenom II 940 (quad-core) rocking 8 gigs of ram and executing PHP 5.3.2.2 as an Apache module: Compression benchmark: (level, time, size (%)): 0: 0.000373 - 82.08 kB (100.02%) 1: 0.000914 - 19.61 kB (23.90%) 2: 0.000951 - 18.88 kB (23.01%) 3: 0.000999 - 18.43 kB (22.46%) 4: 0.001498 - 17.65 kB (21.51%) 5: 0.001744 - 17.09 kB (20.82%) 6: 0.002060 - 16.88 kB (20.57%) 7: 0.002233 - 16.85 kB (20.53%) 8: 0.002808 - 16.71 kB (20.36%) 9: 0.002928 - 16.71 kB (20.36%) The time code evaluates to: 1. Get start microtime 2. Call gzcompress 3. Get end microtime 4. Report average duration of 100 cycles The 82.08 kB was a copied and pasted string of two actual, PHP-generated pages we use on our intranet. Running some rough calculations, the time it takes to compress the data at level 9 will never be larger than the time it takes to transmit slightly-less compressed data at levels 6 or lower. In other words, in our application, we have no reason not to fully-compress each PHP script's output. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 74.129.203.22 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gzcompress.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/106239 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/106239/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/106239/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/106239/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/106239/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/106239/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/106239/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/106239 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/106239 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php