Posted by NC on 11/19/07 05:57

On Nov 18, 11:25 am, Mark Space <marksp...@sbc.global.net> wrote:
> NC wrote:
> > Last September, Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, gave a keynote
>
> In 2006, not really last September, but the September before last.

Indeed. My apologies for the mistake.

> > 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:
>
> I didn't see any optimizations or code there.

But that's the point. No coding was required. Performance
improvement was achieved purely by means of system administration
(installing an opcode cache and changing MySQL configuration
settings). So every time I see a performance test, I wonder which
optimizations testers chose not to use or didn't know of...

Cheers,
NC

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