Re: benchmarking php

> > I think most PHP programmers don't know how to :-) > > Could someone please expand on how it can be done? > > Well you can either: > 1) start and stop a timer in various parts of your script and then > output the results isn't there a class which serves some kind of timer stuff i.e. to be able to do something like this // give the timer a name to be able to use multiple timers $timer->start('someName'); .... some code that needs performance measuring print 'action took: '.$timer->getDiff('someName'); "getDiff" is just a name i made up for the method that measures the time difference to the call to "start" i was not searching if there is something like this in PEAR what i am doing still is the following (i.e. in the tree class) if( $this->debug ) { $startTime = split(" ",microtime()); $startTime = $startTime[1]+$startTime[0]; } .... some code that needs performance measuring if( $this->debug ) { $endTime = split(" ",microtime()); $endTime = $endTime[1]+$endTime[0]; print( " building took: ".($endTime - $startTime)." <br>" ); } but its not really that cool i think -- Wolfram