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Octavia Andreea Anghel on DevX.com posted new article of how you can benchmark your php applications with pear Benchmark package.

Any software product must successfully pass the optimization step before it can hit the market and become a reference product. Finding memory leaks and increasing a product’s performance is a delicate job that takes many hours of work and many human resources. Benchmarking is an important step in the optimization puzzle, because it can test both individual chunks of code and the entire codebase, and provides reports and statistics that reveal the true runtime parameters and performance.

Many useful information and code snippets you would find in this article.

Yesterday Alejandro Gervasio produced new article about PHP applications bechmarking in DevShed site. Article shows how timers can be used to check php scripts execution time using timers.

f you’ve been using PHP for a while, then it’s possible that you want to learn how to create benchmarking scripts. If this is true, then this series of tutorials will be pretty helpful. Welcome to the second article of the series “Benchmarking applications with PHP.” Composed of three parts, this series walks you through the development of several approaches aimed at benchmarking specific blocks of code and even entire PHP applications.

This is a second article about php applications benchmarking first one you can finde also in DevShed site here.