Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP 64-bit binaries?

2011-10-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > Mixing 32bit and 64bit just seems totally wrong to me ... There is nothing wrong here but a totally normal configuration. If one takes care of performances, the database server(s) are separate servers anyway. And they are totally unrelated

Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP 64-bit binaries?

2011-10-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: > >> hi, >> >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Lester Caine >> wrote: >> >>> Keith Davis wrote: >>> > From everything that I've heard, there is not much benefit to a x64 > binary for PHP. >>

Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP 64-bit binaries?

2011-10-16 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: hi, On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Lester Caine wrote: Keith Davis wrote: From everything that I've heard, there is not much benefit to a x64 binary for PHP. Running all 64bit including the database, I'm seeing a reasonable performance improvement over a pure 32 bi

Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP 64-bit binaries?

2011-10-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Tomasz Krawczyk wrote: > I was also thinking about x64 php. > Guys, you said that 64 bit PHP is slightly slower than 32 bit, but there > might be areas where x64 will be faster. Let's imagine site basing on image > or video processing. That kind of site could take

Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP 64-bit binaries?

2011-10-16 Thread Tomasz Krawczyk
W dniu 2011-10-16 16:07, Pierre Joye pisze: hi Justin! Well, right. The only advantage is the largest maximal available memory. But I'd to say that if one is processing GB of XML data using DOM, then he should seriously consider xmlreader and xmlwriter. They are stream based parser and used a co

Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP 64-bit binaries?

2011-10-16 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Justin! On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Justin Dearing wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: > >> PHP is slower in 64bit than in 32bit modes. Databases (be oracle, >> mysql or other) are another stories and many of them are faster. >> However one does not have to run p

Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP 64-bit binaries?

2011-10-16 Thread Justin Dearing
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: > PHP is slower in 64bit than in 32bit modes. Databases (be oracle, > mysql or other) are another stories and many of them are faster. > However one does not have to run php in 64bit mode to talk to database > servers running in 64bit mode. > >

Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP 64-bit binaries?

2011-10-16 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Keith Davis wrote: >>> >>> From everything that I've heard, there is not much benefit to a x64 >> >> binary for PHP. > > Running all 64bit including the database, I'm seeing a reasonable > performance improvement over a pure 32 bit set-u