Jonathan Street has a
few tips for developers out there looking to speed things up on their site - seven tips towards "lightning fast sites".
I was recently creating a small tool in PHP and found myself hitting the max execution time and getting a fatal error. As it was only for my personal use I just bumped up the max execution time but it made me stop and think about how I could improve the speed of those scripts I do put up for public use. Most people aren't going to wait for 60 seconds for a page to load. Naturally I hit the internet looking for tips.
The tips he came across (each including the simple benchmarks to show the differences) were:
- sizeof vs count
- is_int vs is_integer
- chop vs rtrim
- doubleval vs floatval
- fwrite vs fputs
- implode vs joinini_alter vs ini_set
Be sure to also check out his follow up post talking about
building better benchmarks to test the sorts of tips he's given above.
Jonathan Street's Blog: Lightning Fast Sites & Better Benchmarks - Read More... 
