[FLOW3-general] Performance of FLOW3

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi.

As Robert already write, we keep an eye on PHP compilers and the
possibility of writing PHP extensions to speed up things.

On 23.02.10 13:59, Thomas Fritz wrote:
> about other projects like roadsend and phpc which are available much longer
> than "HipHop". It also turns out that the roadsend developers and phpc
> developers work very hard on a complete new and rewritten version of the
> roadsend php compiler.

Well, I just spend some time reading up on those compilers. The speed
gains seem rather low (according to Manuel Lemos who benchmarked some).
But the show stopper is the limited support for PHP all those compilers
have:
- none of those deals with PHP 5.3 currently
- it seems that will stay like this for quite a while
- some PHP will never be supported according to the project's roadmaps

Unfortunately that means that for an ambitious project like FLOW3, which
makes heavy use of the bleeding edge stuff in PHP 5.3, compiling is not
an option right now.


Writing custom extensions to speed up specific parts seems much more
viable. Robert, we need to find some time to get back to that C/C++
learning thingy. :)

Regards,
Karsten