Food for thought... There are a lot of performance issues outside of PHP...
MySQL - version 4.0.x supports caching... Apache 2.0 - is now threaded... Memory is now cheap... Increase the server's memory You may also want to consider Zends Optimizer and Accelerator if you need additional boost in performance. Or even write your appliation to generate the HTML pages and place it in the cron job to keep the data refreshed... Just my 2 cents... ----- Original Message ----- From: "SP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Miguel Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Pag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Luc Saint-Elie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 2:47 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP compared to JSP > Does anyone think caching should be built into php for it to edge out the competition? > (like what smarty is doing) > > I mean a static page will always serve up faster then a dynamic one. Also even if you are > getting 100 pages/sec on your database, you could cache it for 5 seconds and you save 500 > accesses to your database. Yeah the page would be at most 5 seconds old but no one would > know. > > Plus if you are a crappy programmer then it would mask how slow your code is :-) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Miguel Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: May 5, 2002 3:01 AM > To: Pag > Cc: Luc Saint-Elie; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP compared to JSP > > > On Sat, 4 May 2002, Pag wrote: > >> Does PHP compile : NO > >> Does the user loading same page for 2nd time gets better response : YES > >> it can if caching is provided > > > > On a side not..isnt caching a bit like going against why PHP was built > > in the first place? I mean, information may get a bit out of date if we > > get a page on the cache instead of getting it "fresh" from the server. > > Sometimes the developer knows how stale information can get before it > needs to be refreshed. An awful lot of pages fetched with GET args are > just straight-up retrievals from mostly-static databases, and can be > cached with impunity. > > Also, there are other types of caching. On a multi-use machine that is > busy with other stuff but not getting a lot of web traffic, httpd may have > been paged out. And the PHP source file will be cached by the filesystem > for a while after being read, saving subsequent repeat visits the delay of > a disk operation. > > miguel > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
