In part 1 I've reported the results of a micro-benchmark designed to compare the performance of plain php includes vs includes via streams from a sqlite database. In this post I extend the test cases with two more no-includes same work, to serve as a base case and includes from a mysql database, the code is the same as in sqlite case, the connector differs. You can find the code attached at the end previous post.

Overall, having in mind the random factors like netbook load (CPU and IO), the differences between the different test cases are insignificant on the test machine - Acer Aspire One netbook.

Please let me know if you decide to run these benchmarks. I will be especially interested to see what are the differences.

These results are encouraging enough to merit developing a more substantial test. I'm interested in benchmarking drupal. What scenarios would you suggest?

• part 1
• the benchmark
• results
• conclusions

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