RE: [PHP-GENERAL] How FAST is Php?

Yes. CGI basically means a new instance of PHP, a new process, is invoked for every hit. In the ISAPI module, that's not the case - PHP becomes a part of the IIS process, and is alive for as long as the server lives. The difference between the two approaches is very evident. CGI is much, much slower for obvious reasons. However, if something bad happens, e.g. memory corruption, with CGI - at worse, one process would mess up. In ISAPI - it could mess up the entire server, until it's restarted. Zeev At 07:45 08/06/2000, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Baranyi_P=E9ter?= wrote:

I woul like to do something similar. Do your worlds mean that the CGI verison of PHP is more stable than the ISAPI? Why? Can you shortly explain to a newbie? Thanks: Peter Baranyi -----Original Message----- From: Zeev Suraski [mailto:zeev@zend.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 6:53 PM To: Daniel Gustafsson Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-GENERAL] How FAST is Php? On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:

How good performance-wize is PHP4 under Windows? Is it

sufficient enough to

power some sort of online-community with hundreds of

online users? =) While someone has complained about PHP 4.0 being extremely slow under Windows, we haven't been able to reproduce this behavior, and it appears to be more or less as fast as its UNIX cousins. However, in order to support an online community with hundreds of users, you won't be able to rely on the stability of the ISAPI module at this time. So, you'd have to use the CGI version, which will significantly higher the load on your server. All in all - you'd have to actually see if it does the job for you. I don't think that too many people have done this before (but if someone here has - by all means - say so :) Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/

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