Zend Optimizer - Do you use it? Opinions?

coditoergosum

I was wondering if any of you use the Zend Optimizer. If so, what are your opinions of it? Does it really speed up your scripts? Do you use it purely to increase performance, or are you using it to run scripts encoded by Zend Encoder?

What about stability? Have you noticed any decrease in stability after installing it? Do you trust it enough to run it on a production server?

Elizabeth

Interesting thread, codito - I've been wondering the same thing myself. Also wondering about PHP Accelerator.

-Elizabeth

stolzyboy

not too sure about the Zend Encoder

but....

I have a couple friends at a local hosting company here and they were using php accelerator, and they said it was more like php deccelator....

Not only did it tend to slow down their scripts, it made the scripts seem to be more buggy and run haphazardly (now i'm not sure if the second is a coding problem), but not likely

I tried to run a simple script on two machines there

one with and one w/o the accelerator

it had different text functions, arrays, math equations, etc.....

and consistently, the one w/ accelerator was 2-3 seconds slower, and this is a simple script, that only took .15 seconds most of the time with the w/o accelerator

this must be a fluke, but i thought i'd give you my knowledge

coditoergosum

Interesting. I have actually heard some similar feedback about php accelerator. It isn't developed by Zend though, so it doesn't surprise me that it isn't that great. I think for the most part I only trust stuff from Zend (the people who made the current PHP engine).

Zend encoder is a program that will encode scripts to protect IP. I'm not really interested in that, since I'm all about open source (and it carries a pretty hefty price tag). But, Zend Optimizer is free, and according to Zend will increase the performance of most scripts (it's also needed to run scripts encoded by Zend encoder). It appears to me that it just optimizes loops and control scructures, but it might do more.

Here's a link to Zend optimizer in case anyone wants to check it out: http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-optimizer.php

stolzyboy

hey,

found this here of all places, LOL

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/piergiorgio20010321.php3

Bunkermaster

You couldn't possibly dare asking me to have some program goof around my code and screw my algorythms...

NO WAY

superwormy

We beta-tested the Zend Perfomance Suite, and using just the Optimizer part of it scripts ran between 4 and 10 times faster :-)

It was litterally insane, between caching and optimization scripts just ran disgustingly fast. And this was when it was still in Beta :-)

Seriously, if you need to speed up your scripts and have the $$$, Zend is the way to go, the tools are way easy to use and install and the perfomance is AMAZING.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by Bunkermaster
You couldn't possibly dare asking me to have some program goof around my code and screw my algorythms...

NO WAY

Mel lives!

wrfan

how am I supposed to use it if it's incompatible with php 5.2? somebody knows when they will update it?