Where Are The Benchmarks For Phar?
Posted by Stuart Herbert @ 10:12 PM, Sun 29 Jun 08
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Derick recently blogged that “phar is cool!” Cool is great … but it doesn’t answer important questions: how does loading your application from a .phar file affect overall performance and scalability? How well does it work with leading bytecode caches?
Where are the benchmarks for phar? ![]()
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4 Comments
June 29th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
They are regularly posted on the PHP internals mailing list, check, the archives. The good news is, that Greg managed to optimize is so far that it performs almost identically to native PHP applications. And it works better with byte code caches from week to week.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:12 am
http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=121394601217048&w=2
There you go.
June 30th, 2008 at 6:31 am
My name is “Derick” - like it is mentioned at least one time in the domain name, two times in my email address and one time in the header on my site. It isn’t that hard!
June 30th, 2008 at 10:45 am
@Derick: sorry about that … I’m just too used to the English spelling of the word I guess …
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