Discover how to optimize your PHP applications using these straightforward yet powerful benchmarking techniques.
by Octavia Andreea Anghel
May 28, 2008
ny software product must successfully pass the optimization step before it can hit the market and become a reference product. Finding memory leaks and increasing a product's performance is a delicate job that takes many hours of work and many human resources. Benchmarking is an important step in the optimization puzzle, because it can test both individual chunks of code and the entire codebase, and provides reports and statistics that reveal the true runtime parameters and performance.
In PHP you can use the Benchmark package—a PEAR package used to benchmark PHP scripts or functions calls. The latest released version is 1.2.7 (stable); after downloading the package, you can install it like this:
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ny software product must successfully pass the optimization step before it can hit the market and become a reference product. Finding memory leaks and increasing a product's performance is a delicate job that takes many hours of work and many human resources. Benchmarking is an important step in the optimization puzzle, because it can test both individual chunks of code and the entire codebase, and provides reports and statistics that reveal the true runtime parameters and performance.
