NYCPHP Meetup

[Nate Abele]

> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:21:21 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net>
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] PHP Web Frameworks
> To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
>
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Nate Abele wrote:
>
>> (1) The developers of Symfony specifically discourage running it
>> without a PHP accelerator.  In the PHP world, where limited control
>> over deployment is often a reality, an accelerator is not always a
>> given.   The fact that they essentially require one says something, I
>> think.
>
> Surely, if you're getting enough hits to really need an accelerator  
> then
> you should be running on your own server(s) where you *do* have  
> control
> over whether an accelerator is used or not?
>

I don't disagree, but that's not the point.  The point is that they  
basically require an accelerator for running Symfony applications,  
period; they don't qualify that statement by traffic levels or any  
other considerations.  This, to me, seems like a tacit acknowledgment  
of inefficiency, and they seem to be okay with that.

This conclusion also (ostensibly) reflected in the benchmarks I  
linked to previously which, you'll note, are based on Symfony 1.0.   
I'm not saying that performance is the end-all-be-all of web  
frameworks (I, for one, consider my own brain processor cycles more  
valuable than those of my server), but it's certainly a priority,  
though apparently less so for some than others.

- Nate