Posted by NC on 11/18/07 05:42

On Nov 17, 6:28 am, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
>
> I'm have been interested in computer performance for
> a long time, so I want to get the performance aspect
> of this back to the issues, not personalities.

It's a commendable attitude, but in the final analysis, performance of
complex systems is always going to be about personalities (meaning,
personalities of those who fine-tune those systems).

Last September, Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, gave a keynote
speech at the php|works conference in Toronto. During his
presentation, he demonstrated several performance-tuning techniques
that increased an application's performance from 17 requests per
second to 1,100:

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3631831

Cheers,
NC

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