about 2 months ago - 3 comments
I spend lot of time profiling popular PHP applications finding where exactly processing time is spent during PHP execution. Few months ago, one thing which caught my attention was performance of mysql_connect API. On my windows test bench, xdebug output showed that one call to mysql_connect was taking 0.31 seconds which is huge. While playing [...]
about 3 months ago - 1 comment
Last week I was in Chicago in the company of very passionate and smart PHP programmers at Tek-X. I got to meet some well-known members of PHP community and also fellow Microsoft employees who have been working on improving PHP experience of Windows. I would admit that meeting people was the best part of Tek-X [...]
about 3 months ago - No comments
Ruslan (http://ruslany.net), who is Program Manager for WinCache project, has been showing WinCache statistics on the right sidebar of his website for quite some time. Few weeks ago I decided to do the same but instead of editing theme source code and add the information there, I decided to write a standalone wordpress widget. Two [...]
about 3 months ago - 2 comments
In the last few years VC++ team have done some awesome work with profile guided optimizations (PGO). PGO improves performance of certain code paths which are more likely to be used in production environments. Most of the teams in Microsoft have been using this technology to speed up most commonly used scenarios. One of the [...]
about 3 months ago - 2 comments
Last week I published winbuild.bat to setup PHP build environment on windows. In this blog I am covering how to add a PECL extension to the PHP build system. I will also show how to static link a PHP extension and how much performance benefit you can get by that.
Building a PECL extension
Let’s say you [...]
about 4 months ago - 14 comments
One of the things I have done many times in the past year is setting up a build environment for PHP on Windows. I have been using a simple script to do this which I am releasing today with this blog. Here is the zip file contains the script winbuild.bat along with essential tools (wget [...]
about 4 months ago - 3 comments
One of the major pain points in FastCGI 1.0 was that users were required to set maxInstances to a number which works best for their application. Many users didn’t tune this value and were running FastCGI with default value of maxInstances which didn’t give them optimal performance. We recommended users to set maxInstances to (10 [...]
about 4 months ago - 2 comments
After WinCache 1.0 release, two most requested features were user cache and session cache. We added both of these features in WinCache 1.1 beta1. We are very happy with the rate of adoption of user cache by PHP application developers. Many application developers have already added support for WinCache user cache in their applications and [...]
about 5 months ago - No comments
One of the new features added to FastCGI module in IIS 7.5 is ability to use IIS tracing infrastructure from FastCGI applications. This feature request was made by a customer who wanted to consolidate logging of the request processing in one log. All IIS events were present in IIS trace logs but traces generated by [...]
about 5 months ago - 2 comments
WinCache 1.1 beta release added two new major features to WinCache. These are user cache APIs which can be used to store custom data in the cache and “wincache” session handler. User cache APIs was the biggest feature gap WinCache 1.0 had compared to other caching solutions which are frequently used on Linux. WinCache 1.1 [...]