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Subject: Performance tuning PHP5
From: sterling@bumblebury.com (Sterling Hughes)

Hey,

I've been benchmarking the PHP5 and PHP4.  Found a neat little way to
improve the performance like crazy.  Go into zend_mm.h and change:

#define ZEND_MM

To:

#undef ZEND_MM

And touch zend_alloc.c, recompile, and then rebenchmark.  My tests show
a 15-20% performance improvement *across the board* between before and
after.  This probably increases if you're using a webserver like apache,
where the memory manager really screws things up.

-Sterling


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 but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." 
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