Paul M. Jones | Benchmarks 2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 Passing the Benchmarking Torch After 7 Years 2013-12-30T10:52:29-06:00 Long-time readers will recall that I am interested in performance benchmarks as a tool to help discover the outer limits of framework responsiveness. See the blog category along with the most recent measurement report and the GitHub repo for replicat... Speaking at OSCON 2011 2011-04-16T08:41:51-05:00 My Benchmarking talk has been accepted for OSCON 2011. Looking forward to updating it for the occasion. Woohoo!... Benchmarking Slides from PHPBenelux 2011 2011-02-02T09:15:17-06:00 Here are the slides from my PHPBenelux 2011 talk about benchmarking. This presentation includes updates to previous benchmarks; the graph is on slide 40. The benchmarking project has moved from Google Code to Github at https://github.com/pmjones/php... Comparing Benchmark Tools 2010-10-27T10:43:47-05:00 As I noted last week, I have moved my framework benchmarking project to GitHub. As part of the move, I updated the project to allow benchmarking using any of three tools: Acme http_load, Apache ab, or Joedog siege. (For reference, the old project wi... PHP Framework Benchmarks on Github 2010-10-19T11:51:55-05:00 As part of “trying new things,” I have moved my web frameworks benchmark project over to Git on Github and away from Subversion on Google Code. This project is often imitated and occasionally adopted. For all you framework fans who want to compar... Running The Symfony 2 Benchmarks 2010-02-21T20:03:57-06:00 Fabien Potencier released Symfony 2.0.0alpha1 last week, along with some benchmarks showing its performance. I am glad to see that Fabien used my benchmarking system and methodology, and am happy to see that he is paying attention to the performance ... The Future of Zend Framework is Solar 2009-11-11T23:38:59-06:00 I have said it before and I'll say it again now: If you want to see the future of Zend Framework, look at the Solar Framework for PHP 5. FYI: This is a cheerleading post. Some will be annoyed by it or find it "unfair". Others may find it informativ... A Siege On Benchmarks 2009-03-05T12:43:46-06:00 My regular readers (and perhaps the irregular ones as well ;-) know that I have been obsessed with baseline-responsiveness benchmarking of frameworks for years now.  The idea has always been that, in order to know how far you can optimize your fra... Lazyweb Request: Why would PHP be *faster* than HTML? 2009-02-19T10:55:26-06:00 With the help of the great guys at Slicehost.com, I am attempting to run my benchmark series on a virtual private server, to compare with EC2. However, I'm seeing a very strange result for the baselines: a PHP page delivers more requests-per-second t... Rasmus Lerdorf's Laconic(a) Performance 2008-09-04T11:44:38-05:00 As many of you know, I maintain a series of web framework benchmarks. The project codebase is here and the most recent report is here. It was with some interest, then, that I viewed Rasmus Lerdorf's slides on the subject of performance benchmarking. ...