Paul M. Jones

Fabien Potencier released Symfony 2.0.0alpha1 last week, along with some benchmarks showing its performance. I am glad to see that Fabien used my benchmarking system and methodology, and am happy to see that he is paying attention to the performance of his framework. I take this as an acceptance on his part that my methodology [...]

I have said it before and I’ll say it again now: If you want to see the future of Zend Framework, look at the Solar Framework for PHP 5. Read to see what ZF 2.0 has planned, that Solar does right now.

My regular readers (and perhaps the irregular ones as well ;-) know that I have been obsessed with baseline-responsiveness benchmarking of frameworks for years now.  The idea has always been that, in order to know how far you can optimize your framework-based applications, you need to know the limits imposed by the framework itself.  Only [...]

With the help of the great guys at Slicehost.com, I am attempting to run my benchmark series on a virtual private server, to compare with EC2. However, I’m seeing a very strange result for the baselines: a PHP page delivers more requests-per-second than a static HTML page.

As many of you know, I maintain a series of web framework benchmarks. The project codebase is here and the most recent report is here.
It was with some interest, then, that I viewed Rasmus Lerdorf’s slides on the subject of performance benchmarking. I’m beginning to think there’s something unexpected or unexamined in his testing [...]

By popular request, here is an update of my web framework benchmarks report. You can see previous result sets here:

How Fast Is Your Framework?
New Year’s Benchmarks
Framework and Application Benchmarking slides at DCPHP 2007

Before you comment on this post, please have the courtesy to read at least the first two articles above; I am tired [...]

You can see the slides for my benchmarking talk here:
benchmarking-2007.pdf

I’m giving two talks at php|works this year, and it turns out that they complement each other quite nicely. In a way, they are both about organization and architecture. Read on for more, especially the new “benchmarking for fun and profit” talk.

As the author of a relatively popular benchmarking article, I feel compelled to respond to this bit of misguided analysis from the Symfony camp about benchmarks. M. Zaninotto sets up a number of straw-man arguments regarding comparative benchmarks in general, although he does not link to any specific research. In doing so, he misses the point of comparative benchmarking almost entirely. Herein I will address some of M. Zaninotto’s arguments individually in reference to my previous benchmarking series.

Anyone interested in the benchmarking code used to generate this report is now available for anyone to check out:
http://code.google.com/p/web-framework-benchmarks/
With luck, this will help to show (by example) my commitment to openness and fair dealing, as I have been accused of being otherwise.