Benchmarking 3 PHP Accelerators

jfbus writes "PHP, like all scripting languages, suffers from having to parse all script files each time a page is displayed. Accelerators (opcode caches) are necessary to speed PHP enough for large websites. Here is a benchmark of the major PHP accelerators (Zend platform, apc and eAccelerator)."

Comments

Re:Like all scripting languages?

[Bogtha]

Rasmus Lerdorf has posted a PHP 6.0 wishlist that includes an opcode cache. Rasmus is the founder of the PHP project.

Zend might sell an accelerator, but that doesn't mean they can simply forbid the founder of PHP from adding the feature to his own project. At this point, I think the question is which opcode cache gets added to PHP, not whether it will happen.

Re:"Accelerating" PHP is a waste of time

[fractalus]

PHP may indeed be crap, but not for the reasons you specify.

• Whether you prefer Perl-like syntax (that PHP uses) or VBScript syntax is largely a matter of preference. I've personally found that VBScript is more of a pain in the ass than PHP.
• You can have ADO if you want it, or you can use PDO which does support parameterized queries. Or you can use mysqli instead of mysql.
• I honestly found VBScript lacking more basic convenience functions than PHP ever did.

The extension model may be a matter of taste. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. PHP's handling of multiple form fields with the same name does suck, but at least it isn't too hard to work-around (just re-parse the posted data the way it should have been done).

PHP security doesn't suck any worse than ASP or Perl or ColdFusion or anything else, once you disable things like magic_quotes and register_globals (which is recommended practice). However, there's a lot of crappy PHP code floating around, and if you're new to web programming, you don't know enough to tell the good code from the bad. Nor do you really grok the notion that your code can be hammered on by every malcontent on the planet. Those problems are also not unique to PHP. But since PHP is so widely available, lots of amateurs write code with it.