On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:24:20PM -0500, Mark Christensen wrote:
While, we do need to improve our DB performance, but without better stats, we can't say for certain that there aren't any PHP bottlenecks. And PHP bottlenecks could eventually arise if we improve DB performance significantly.
Programming languages like PHP and to even greater extend Perl, provide both very high and very low level features, and if PHP/Perl program actually happen to be a bottleneck, it's usually possible to profile it (very important) and fix - for example some regular expresion may be called very often, while it could be easily changed into a couple of index() and a substr(), and things like that.