And, while I'm thinking of it ... OK, with Perl there's mod_perl to speed things up,
but, (and I realize these tools have the drawback of being proprietary), with PHP there are
the Zend Optimizer (at least with PHP4) and, if I am not mistaken a compiler for Zend.
To the extent that the latter is, for us on this end of things, vaporware, we can
perhaps disregard it (while keeping a watchful eye on its development).
The optimizer, OTOH, is available now. How about throwing that into the benchmarks?
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