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Re: PHP Profiler to optimize & speed up your applications

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Post by stutter » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 1:51 PM UTC

morganpyne wrote: post #8

I have found Facebook's xhprof extension to be a a very useful extension for profiling also https://github.com/facebook/xhprof . Unlike the one above, it doesn't require any code changes (it's a C-based PECL extension), and can easily be set up to be triggered via a parameter on the URL or to profile every nth page load (via a simple auto-prepend) for usage in production environments. It produces a full callgraph (us…

Profiling PHP with PHP is kind of humorous, I'll concede. But it can certainly help alert you to slow-running pages, queries, and steps. Which should at least give you a starting point or prompt you to dive deeper with a stronger/more robust tool like xdebug+kcachegrind.

Thanks for checking out the library and providing feedback though, I appreciate it!

Re: PHP Profiler to optimize & speed up your applications

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Post by preinheimer » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 2:04 PM UTC

morganpyne wrote: post #8

I have found Facebook's xhprof extension to be a a very useful extension for profiling also https://github.com/facebook/xhprof . Unlike the one above, it doesn't require any code changes (it's a C-based PECL extension), and can easily be set up to be triggered via a parameter on the URL or to profile every nth page load (via a simple auto-prepend) for usage in production environments. It produces a full callgraph (us…

There's also a GUI tool to go along with the backend work: http://phpadvent.org/2010/profiling-with-xhgui-by-paul-reinh...

Re: PHP Profiler to optimize & speed up your applications

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Post by powertower » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 6:02 PM UTC

MindTwister wrote: post #2

For more in depth profiling and optimization there is always APD: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.apd.php

APD looks like it was abandoned in 2004.

Re: PHP Profiler to optimize & speed up your applications

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Post by morganpyne » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 7:43 PM UTC

preinheimer wrote: post #22

morganpyne wrote: post #8

I have found Facebook's xhprof extension to be a a very useful extension for profiling also https://github.com/facebook/xhprof . Unlike the one above, it doesn't require any code changes (it's a C-based PECL extension), and can easily be set up to be triggered via a parameter on the URL or to profile every nth page load (via a simple auto-prepend) for usage in production environments. It produces a full callgraph (us…

There's also a GUI tool to go along with the backend work: http://phpadvent.org/2010/profiling-with-xhgui-by-paul-reinh...

Thank you, I had not seen your fork and modifications before. Will check them out!