On Mon, 7 May 2001, Jeff wrote:
> I have two questions:
>
> 1) I've seen a lot of benching by pc magazine and they're saying how
> great cold fusion is and how bad php is. However, they don't use Zend
> in any of their tests. Does anyone know of benchmarks against popular
> systems that include php + Zend?
Every PHP4 includes 'Zend' - it's the underlying engine that powers PHP.
Did you mean the zend optimizer? the zend cache? The only thing an
optimizer or cache would buy you is speed, which PHP is definitely not
lacking compared with many other systems. The most recent 'shoot out' in
memory is ZDNet's 'eweek' thing. They flat out print that PHP is the
fastest in their benchmark, ASP being the second fastest (becoming the
first after MS tweaked the benchmark and resubmmited optimized code). CF
was third or fourth down. But they rated it highest because of purported
ease of development (GUI editor, drag and drop queries, etc.)
>
> 2) What is the performance gain by using an API vs database abstraction
> layers, like ADO?
An any abstraction layer is going to add at least a small % to the overall
processing time, because it's abstracting - having to do extra conversions
that wouldn't be necessary hardcoding for one database. But you gain
flexbility should you need to move datbases later on.
> > Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
>
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