I have measured Quercus php performance compared to standard php with
APC on a ecommerce workload and found that Quercus php performed
slower than standard php + APC.
Regards,
Basant.
On Aug 16, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Tom Boutell wrote:
Re: the performance of PHP, if it's badly implemented, shouldn't
Quercus (a reimplementation of PHP in Java) run rings around it?
In reality, Quercus is faster than PHP without APC, but with APC the
Quercus team themselves admit it only "roughly matches" the original
PHP in speed.
http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/quercus/
I guess you could spin this the other way though. Java optimizes well,
but not as well as raw C. Standard PHP, being implemented in raw C,
ought to have some performance advantages over a reimplementation in
Java. But apparently not so much.
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Lothar Scholz<sch...@scriptolutions.com
> wrote:
Hello Paul,
PB> Yes, by many times. Part of that might be the expense of PHP's
weak
PB> typing and references.
No. Smalltalk, Javascript, Lua they all have the same problem with it
and they solve it in much more clever and performant ways. Javascript
with its class free OO is even harder and with V8 they have a much
much better solution.
It's just the implementation - not the language.
PB> They cause most operations to be more
PB> expensive, even if they are not used in that particular
operation.
PB> I did a performance analysis of PHP in a paper I have in
submission.
PB> You might find it interesting (comment welcome):
PB> https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~pbiggar/wip-sac-journal.pdf.
Thanks, just had a 10min quick look at it - hope to find some more
time later.
And first of all begin a tool writer (IDE Developer)
myself i can't agree more about the problems with "the source
is the specification" idea.
<Strong Language Warning>
This sucks so huge and is such a
fucking lazy argument of an incompetent language development team.
By the way greetings to Matz and his team who also sucks
with his CRuby.
I really questioning the skills of a lot of core programmers when
i read the PHP manual section about namespaces. Simple questions
about
scopes of identifier aliasing - nothing of this is specified.
A buggy implementation should solve as reference? Damn'd fucking
college boys. This was an acceptable development method for PHP3.
</Strong Language Warning>
Okay i must cool myself down.
I've seen that you talked about branch prediction misses in your
paper. Did you ever tried to compile the original PHP with different
compilers, for example from intel or sun studio? Did you test or have
you ever heard of someone who tested the influence of the profiling
feedback that modern C compilers offer? (Well don't ask me - it's
somewhere on my TODO list - but i also haven't had the time yet).
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