Blog posts tagged with performance

Compiling doctrine in symfony 1.4

When profiling symfony 1.x applications hydrating Doctrine objects occurs to be one of the most time consuming operations. Recently I experienced something different. Loading ORM classes was one of the most expensive tasks. Usually such operations don't even show up during profiling.

Symfony meets APC (Alternative PHP Cache)

Up to last week I was exclusively an XCache user if we talk about PHP accelerators. Recently I needed to use APC with a symfony application. As symfony offers nice APC integration it went quite smooth.