eZ Publish is 20% Faster With PHP 5.3.0
Lukasz Serwatka wrote an eZ Publish benchmark to show performance gained with PHP5.3.0. Lukasz found that you can boost your application up to 20% with 5.3 compared to 5.2. PHP accelerator is essential for eZ Publish according to benchmark results to get the highest performance.
From community feedback it appears that eZ Publish using Windows is about 30% quicker with PHP 5.3.0. I decided to validate these reports and confirm the performance of eZ Publish using PHP 5.3.0 with a linux environment.
The benchmark have been done with eZ Publish 4.1.3 and ApacheBench 2.3 using OpenSuse 11.1, PHP 5.3.0, APC 3.1.2, Apache 1.3.41, MySQL 5.0.67. Server hardware CPU: Core 2 Quad 3.5 GHz, RAM: 8 GB and finally HDD: SATA 7200 RPM.
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