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[Tom Melendez]

Hi Nate,

Could you supply us with the benchmarks you've cited?  I'm curious to
see them and I'm sure others are as well.

Thanks,

Tom
http://www.liphp.org


On Jan 19, 2008 9:25 AM, Nate Abele <nate at cakephp.org> wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2008, at 10:20 AM, talk-request at lists.nyphp.org wrote:
>
>
> > On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Anirudh Zala wrote:
> >
> >> When you move from medium to large scale projects, Symfony starts
> >> getting
> >> restricted. For example there is no native support to handle
> >> replication of
> >> database hence you left stumped that what to do.
> >>
> >> Fortunately there is plugin to do so. But it has also it's
> >> limitations. It
> >> supports only 1 master and many slave type of replication. Hence if
> >> you need
> >> to handle multiple masters and slaves then you have no other way
> >> except
> >> modifying that plugin.
> >
> > Define "large".
>
>
> Okay.  How about an application that more than 5 of my closest friends
> can use at the same time?  So far, all benchmarks indicate that
> Symfony is about *half as fast as Rails*.  You take APC out of the
> equation, and it's about an 8th as fast as Rails (in terms of rps).
>
> Getting back to the OP, in terms of speed, you're better off going
> with pretty much anything but Symfony.  Heck, you'd probably be better
> off re-implementing PHP itself in PHP (oh wait, that's Smarty).  For
> simple templating, nothing beats PHP itself, which is why I'd
> recommend something like Savant.
>
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