Re: [PHP4BETA] Wacky Performance Problem w/ Windows

It sounds strange but I'll try and check it out. Do you by any chance have 
the PHP 4 source setup on your machine so that you can compile it? We could 
try and change a few settings.

Andi

At 01:02 PM 6/1/00 -0500, Joel Roller wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'd really like to start using php4 on my NT machines, but the
>performance seems completely wacky.  I can understand the windows
>version lagging behind unix, but when there's multiple orders of
>magnitude difference in speed, I get confused.
>
>Leaving aside the fact that IIS4/isapi php is so much slower for a
>sec..  Php4 on windows parses php (stuff within <? tags ?>) between 2
>and 5 times faster than html.   Here are outlines of the test files that
>I have been using:
>
>File 1:
>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>repeat 998 times here ...
>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>File 2:
><?
>print 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
>repeat 998 times here ...
>print 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
>?>
>
>I have tried IIS4/isapi, IIS4/cgi, Apache/cgi, all on windows, and get
>the same results:  File 2 is much faster than File 1.  And all are
>around 50 times slower than the same file on linux/apache/mod_php.
>
>If this cannon be explained (I really hope someone has a reason/possible
>fix), let this email be a tip to anyone on the windows platform.   You
>can speed up the godawful performance on windows by enclosing your
>entire html in <? print ?> statements.   I myself have improved the
>loading of my homepage from 7 seconds to 3.5 seconds, just by taking
>major blocks of html and using the magic -
><? print <<<EOF
>Fun feature of php4.
>EOF;
>?>
>
>The thing that seriously confuses me, is that php3 doesn't at all suffer
>from near the same performance problems.
>
>I have posted similar pleas of confusion and frustration on PHP-WINDOWS
>and Zend.com / Forums / PHP General with no replies.   Please help me.
>
>-joel
>
>
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