Posted by Vincent Delporte on 01/03/07 19:45

On 3 Jan 2007 11:32:19 -0800, "NC" <nc@iname.com> wrote:
>Check the documentation for your HTTP server. It will likely have
>some information about performance improvement with PHP.
>Generally speaking, CGI is the worst performer. The choice
>between FastCGI and server modules will depend on the HTTP
>server you are using.

I'm free to use any server that I want since it'll be hosted on our
premises. Apart from loading the PHP interpreter at boot time, what
else do FastCGI and Apache's mod_php do to increase performance? Do
they compile PHP scripts into bytecode once, do they leave connections
to MySQL open, other things?

Thank you.

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