Optimizing PHP, Part Three

While pre-packaged binaries are convenient, high-traffic sites typically need a roll-your-own PHP and Apache to fine-tune features and yield extra performance. Start with the latest version of PHP. The 5.1x branch has finally brought PHP 5 performance up to an acceptable level, and includes many advances over PHP 4. After downloading and unpacking the latest version of PHP 5 (5.1.4 as the magazine went to press), set your CFLAGS, an environment variable for compiler flags that are passed to gcc. The correct compiler flags depend on what kind of machine you have, what kind of CPU you have, how much cache…

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