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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:41:39 -0500
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From: xwisdom@gmail.com (Raymond Irving)

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Many thanks for the feedback.

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Raymond

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote=
:

> On 08/19/2012 10:29 AM, Raymond Irving wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > What could have cause PHP to start out so great but then slows to a
> crawl?
> > Could it be the GC?
> >
> > Number of iterations Node.js PHP
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > 100                         2.00         0.14
> > 10=92000                 3.00         10.53
> > 1=92000=92000                 15.00 1119.24
> > 10=92000=92000                 143.00 10621.46
> > 1=92000=92000=92000         11118.00 1036272.19
> >
> > See the script here:
> >
> http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/node-js-for-beginners/?=
utm_source=3Dfeedburner&utm_medium=3Dfeed&utm_campaign=3DFeed%3A+nettuts+%2=
8Nettuts%2B%29
> >
> > Is there any way that this can be improved?
>
> If you are doing something that needs to iterate a billion times, you
> shouldn't be using PHP. Things like calculating a fractal is just not
> what PHP was meant for. The vast majority of Web apps have absolutely no
> need to iterate that many times. You wouldn't try to show a user a
> billion database records on a single page, for example. Chances are
> pretty good that you are going to iterate less than 1000 times on a
> typical request and if you do end up having to iterate more for some
> reason, you would probably cache the result somewhere so you don't have
> to do it on a subsequent request.
>
> -Rasmus
>

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