Monthly Archives: February 2009

Lazyweb Request: Why would PHP be *faster* than HTML?

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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Posted in Benchmarks, PHP | 21 Comments

Fundamental Error in the So-Called “Stimulus” Approach

Congressmen, Senators, the President, and all the high advisors feel that “we need to do something!” about the current economic crisis. Leave aside that government action is at least 50% the reason we got into this mess (I’d rate it … Continue reading

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Say “No” To Smarty!

I just discovered nosmarty.net in my Solar referrer logs. I have little love for Smarty, so it’s nice to see this: First released in January 2001, Smarty has become a stagnant, bug-ridden mess—and also the most popular PHP templating engine … Continue reading

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