Benchmarking PHP

[Anon]

Hey everyone, I'm trying to test the performance increase of using PHP with Zend Optimizer and Cache as opposed to just PHP itself. Does anyone know of a good PHP script that can really benchmark a system and maybe even display the results in nice little graphs? The graphs aren't needed, but I'm curious of the performance increase that we might be getting from the Cache to determine if we should buy it or not. If it's a 35% increase, that's great. If it's 5%, that's not so great.

Thanks!

Mike

[ame12]

There is a great free tool called Homer (from - of all folks - Microsoft) that will stress and benchmark a site. It will probably give you a good figure of merit. Try http://homer.rte.microsoft.com for more info.

Dave

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