Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> Derick and I are both deploying controlled code on a huge scale and > turning off edge-case stuff we know we will never use can make a big > difference. Even a 1 or 2 req/sec difference is significant when you > serve up billions of pages a day. A good example of that is the pipe > checks. I really don't need the ability to pipe scripts to be parsed by > PHP and I am not willing to take the 2-syscall hit on every one of my > requests to support this. Or the non-pic patch which we can't really > deploy on a large scale because libtool is too stupid, but this patch > provides an instant 10-20% performance increase on both ia32 FreeBSD and > Linux while breaking ia64 Linux and AIX I think.
Is there actually any url/listing of those other patches? After applying the non-PIC patch myself and seeing performance improvements with my php apps I'm really looking forward for more patches like this (they only break edge-case stuff and performance improvement is noticeable).
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