Re: [PHP4BETA] code cacheing / compilation?

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Dan Libby wrote: | Hi, I'm trying out PHP4, beta 2. I am using the OOP stuff kind of | heavily, and have noticed a significant drop off in page speed (from | 20/sec to 5/sec) as compared to our previous (propietary) | implementation using the same sorts of database calls. | | Question 1: Is ZEND caching the compiled code after the first request, | or is it re-interpreting each time? No. There will be an extension to Zend that does this, but it is not available yet. I believe this Zend extension will be commercial though. | Question 2: I noticed that on www.zend.com, there is a benchmarks page | (zend v asp) that mentions an optimizer. The performance with the | optimizer is substantially better than with plain zend. So, is this | optimizer included with php 4 beta 2, or is it available elsewhere? If | included, does it need to be enabled somehow? Same answer as above: the optimizer is not available yet, and will probably be commercial. Please send further questions about these Zend extensions to zend@zend.com, as they are the only ones who can give you real answers. - Stig