On Sunday 24 April 2005 12:25, Paul Reilly wrote: > How would I go about benchmarking the different options? > What tools are there to do this? a) time the script - quick, dirty and inaccurate but may provide an indicative result. b) use a profiler, which can be more interesting as it will show the CPU time taken by various parts of the script. I've used Xdebug for profiling and found it useful. Have a look at http://www.php.net/debugger for this and other options (I assume the other debuggers have profiling support). Simon -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simon Rees | tech-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php