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)."

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Re:"Accelerating" PHP is a waste of time

[masklinn]

I want to avoid saying that most PHP sites are amazingly insecure. Certainly, this must be a function of the pathetic losers who use PHP, instead of some function of the language.

The language helps though, the easiest example one can give is the dozen of different functions just to escape DB query parameters (there are at least 3 for mysql alone -- addslashes, mysql_escape_string and mysql_real_escape_string, only the latter being safe), or the wonderful built-in magic quotes that basically addslashes() everything and require you to stripslash every single parameter when they're activated (cause addslashes doesn't provide safe-to-inject values and fucks them up so you can't just *_escape_string them), or the wonderful Register Globals that was finally turned off by default (not even removed) in PHP 4.2.0.