Zend Framework benchmark

A bit late, but Paul M. Jones did a nice benchmark on PHP frameworks in September.

While Paul seems to have put quite some time in it, some people will probably argue about the results (like with all benchmarks). Anyway, I’m of course mostly interested in the PHP – Zend Framework comparison which shows that his Zend Framework script runs > 90%  slower than a plain PHP script. In return you get of course RAD: faster results and tighter development budgets. In my, again, humble opinion it’s more than worth it!

They have lost speed between 1.0 and 1.6 but of course so many features were added. Hopefully it can be improved a bit in future versions.

Until now I have not worked on a high traffic project in ZF so I hope my opinion won’t change then. I did hear the guys working on tv.be had some issues once traffic started coming in…

It’s a shame I missed Shahar Evron’s presentation about Scaling PHP Applications with Zend Platform on this subject. Hopefully he’ll give this talk in Europe some day.