Comments on: Benchmarking PHP’s Magic Methods

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By: Magento Development

Magento Development — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:53:23 +0000

Really Gr8 ! I have used some of them but i was not knowing regarding speed and performance . thanks for sharing this…

By: Vance Lucas

Vance Lucas — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:23:31 +0000

Great article – I agree 100%. I kind of touched on the same subject on my blog with a recent article I wrote, though admittedly in probably too harsh of a way:
http://www.vancelucas.com/article/early-performance-benchmarking-is-a-disease/

Your points are exactly what I was getting at though – obsessing over performance when it isn’t even a problem kills your development.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:54:42 +0000

At the end of the day, while i develop coderprofile.com i simply write code that looks the nicest and scales well and not do stupid things like loop over 1000 records from the database! You can always cache and speed up script execution in many other ways instead of waisting your time with ” ” vs ‘ ‘ and microseconds!

Chances are that front end speed such as delivering css files, js files, images etc are really what the user is waiting for… not the generation time of the page. Take a look at YSlow for FireFox and you will see what i mean.

Kind regards,
Scott

By: stas

stas — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:46:00 +0000

It is just useful to keep these functions in mind. Programms becoming flexible this way.

P.S. Many thanks for the post.

By: minikperi

minikperi — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:58:04 +0000

i wonder if cost of these methods on speed of php is too much why php’s development team devoleped these methods??? . i think if there is such problem they will fix it next versions of php.

By: Shelon Padmore

Shelon Padmore — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:07:49 +0000

Interesting,
What’s more is that in most cases the performance gain from any such optimization is sometimes negligible when compared with the latency of rendering back to a browser across the web. Consider the context of application…

- Shelon Padmore

By: anthony

anthony — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:02:17 +0000

WOW! I never knew this was true. Thanks!

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Web 2.0 .NET vs. LAMP Part 1: Blurring the Line — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:34:42 +0000

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By: Ve Bailovity

Ve Bailovity — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:47:46 +0000

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profiling is the way to find out the potential impact and to discover your true N.
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I totally agree. You can’t really predict where the main bottleneck is going to be, although you can have an educated guess – for instance, polling a database within a loop is most certainly going to be a kludge and you might want to rethink your approach.

However, optimizing too early can easily leave you with unnecessary “speed hacks” in your code, making it harder to understand and maintain. Perhaps the “right” approach might be pondering about and selecting the optimal algorithm for the task at hand, then implementing it in the most elegant, readable and maintainable way – and then, as you watch your app perform, you can pinpoint the exact places where the execution time stalls most and fix that.