Re: [PHP4BETA] php4+zend speed...

ml@buildfreedom.com wrote: > These might qualify as large sites: > http://www.superpages.com (GTE) > http://www.linux.com > http://www.livebid.com (Amazon.com) > > Does anyone know of any more? http://www.epinions.com (PHP4, beta 2). Performance has not been an issue thus far. > > and PHP4 performed pretty damn good. > > It was a `hello world' page, and I also read rummors that PHP4 doesn't > > scale well on large/numerous files. Anyways, I'm looking forward for > > some official benchmarks too. > > PHP 4 scales very nicely on large/complex files. PHP 3 does not. > I wrote a PHP4 module the other day that returns buffers representing (up to) the entire page to be displayed by the browser. It uses the RETURN_STRING macro. Anyway, when the file is very large (100k+) it takes several seconds to return the page. The RETURN_STRING is executed within 1/10th of a second, so the rest is PHP/apache processing. When I stop httpd in gdb, it appears to be stuck in an apache function called large_write(). Any thoughts? -dan

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