Archive for August, 2008
“Benchmarking” PHP frameworks
Although I am not a Drupal user, the chance to visit Drupalcon in Szeged (Hungary) appeared and I couldn’t pass on that one. We got there a little bit late, but just in time to hear Rasmus Lerdorfs keynote speech Simple is Hard. There are some really good ideas for optimizing your applications performance and I strongly recommend it for every PHP developer.
There were also some things I really don’t agree that much. He showed a small PHP frameworks “benchmark” measuring the speed (response time and transactions per second) for each of this frameworks to output the simple HTML page printing out the “Hello world” string. Zend Framework (the framework of my choice) didn’t perform all that bad. Symfony was around 30% slower, and Solar was about 2 times faster. If you are really interested in the numbers have a look at the slides from the session.
Hello World!
Every nice blog should start with a “Hello World!”. Right? 