Zend Interview
An interview with the developers of Zend. Zend is a scripting engine developed by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans (hence the name Zend). Both are members of the core development team of PHP, and wrote large portions of PHP 3.0, including the language implementation and some of the popular modules like the MySQL, Sybase and PostgreSQL modules.
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Zeev Suraski |
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Re: Bad direction...? |
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06-02-1999 03:45PM |
First, let me thank you for describing what I say as silly. I think what's really not very smart is that you're talking about a technical issue you really don't know much about (or seem to hide it very well if you do). Sarcasm aside, from now on.
When we said that only big sites would need it, we meant it. Hardware today is dirt cheap, and my old P133 w/ 64MB easily takes care of multiple fairly pounded web sites (including www.zend.com, il.php.net, webdev.berber.co.il and others), all while being at a load of zero to zero point five. That's with PHP 3.0, with PHP 4.0 the load is even lower (even though most of the load of this box is due to SQL).
Having a 'bit' of real world experience with PHP based sites, and being one of the two developers of Zend, I can tell you that what you said is simply utter nonsense. If you don't have a busy web site, you don't need the optimizer, and it's as simple as that.
Look at PHP 4.0. You're getting something that took Andi and I over half a year of intensive day&night work to write, and you're getting it for free. You're getting it to work under Windows just as easily as you can get it to work under UNIX. You're getting a more powerful language with stronger constructs and new object orientation support.
And what do you have to say about it? 'Gee, those guys are silly. They should really give the thing for free. They should also use a business model that may help them buy a couple of extra beers a month, and they should be happy about it.'
PHP 4.0 is an absolute upgrade and is better than PHP 3.0 in every possible aspect. It's quicker (virtually no comparison), it's more reliable, and it's more feature-rich. You get that for free. Try to look on the full 99.9% of the cup every once in a while.
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