performance optimizations

mysqlnd plugins: alternative to MySQL Proxy ?! - Ulf Wendel

Planet PHP  Wed, 06/02/2010 - 13:40

The mysqlnd plugin API is a well hidden gem of mysqlnd. Mysqlnd plugins operate on a layer between PHP applications and the MySQL server. This is comparable to MySQL Proxy.

MySQL Proxy operates on a layer between any MySQL client application, for example, a PHP application and, the MySQL server.


 

TechnoSophos .com: A 53,900% speedup: Nginx, Drupal, & Memcache

PHPDeveloper.org  Tue, 03/23/2010 - 13:53

On the TechnoSophos blog there's a recent post looking at how the swapping of a few technologies has made for a huge performance jump for a Drupal-based website.


 

SemanticScuttle performance optimizations - Christian Weiske

Planet PHP  Sat, 02/20/2010 - 06:03

This week I worked on lowering the number of queries that SemanticScuttle needs to deliver a bookmark listing page.

Just looking at the front page of a SemanticScuttle instance with 10 or more bookmarks, not logged in, caused 37 SQL queries to be fired to the database.

If you are logged in, doing the same action took SQL 54 queries!


 

Intel graphics drivers employ questionable 3DMark Vantage optimi...

Linux Today  Wed, 10/14/2009 - 00:32

The Tech Report: "In the early days of GPUs, application-specification performance optimizations in graphics drivers were viewed by many as cheating.

Accusations were hurled with regularity, and in some cases, there was real cheating going on."


 

Can Ubuntu 9.10 Outperform Mac OS X 10.6?

Linux Today  Mon, 08/31/2009 - 13:33

Phoronix: "Now that we have tested Mac OS X 10.6, we are seeing how its performance compares to that of Ubuntu Linux.

Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" will be out in October and does have some performance improvements as our earlier tests have shown, but Canonical engineers have not been exclusively focusing on performance optimizations with this release.

Can the Karmic Koala outperform Snow Leopard? Yes and no."