Category Archives: Benchmarks

Speaking at OSCON 2011

Posted on Sat, 16 Apr, 2011 by pmjones

My Benchmarking talk has been accepted for OSCON 2011. Looking forward to updating it for the occasion. Woohoo!

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Benchmarking Slides from PHPBenelux 2011

Posted on Wed, 02 Feb, 2011 by pmjones

Here are the slides from my PHPBenelux 2011 talk about benchmarking. This presentation includes updates to previous benchmarks; the graph is on slide 40. The benchmarking project has moved from Google Code to Github at https://github.com/pmjones/php-framework-benchmarks. Framework and Application Benchmarking … Continue reading →

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Comparing Benchmark Tools

Posted on Wed, 27 Oct, 2010 by pmjones

As I noted last week, I have moved my framework benchmarking project to GitHub. As part of the move, I updated the project to allow benchmarking using any of three tools: Acme http_load, Apache ab, or Joedog siege. (For reference, … Continue reading →

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Running The Symfony 2 Benchmarks

Posted on Sun, 21 Feb, 2010 by pmjones

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 … Continue reading →

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The Future of Zend Framework is Solar

Posted on Wed, 11 Nov, 2009 by pmjones

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. Continue reading →

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A Siege On Benchmarks

Posted on Thu, 05 Mar, 2009 by pmjones

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 … Continue reading →

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Lazyweb Request: Why would PHP be faster than HTML?

Posted on Thu, 19 Feb, 2009 by pmjones

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.

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Rasmus Lerdorf’s Laconic(a) Performance

Posted on Thu, 04 Sep, 2008 by pmjones

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 … Continue reading →

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Labor Day Benchmarks

Posted on Mon, 01 Sep, 2008 by pmjones

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 … Continue reading →