[FLOW3-general] Performance of FLOW3

[Thomas Fritz]

Hi

2010/2/24 Karsten Dambekalns <karsten at typo3.org>

> 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.
>

Roadsend has php 5.3 support on its roadmap as i can see.
http://code.roadsend.com/rphp
> "Latest language features (e.g. PHP5 objects, exceptions, namespaces,
lambda functions, etc)"


>
>
> 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. :)



Kind Regards

Thomas