Our presenter this month is Memphis PHP's own Paul Jones.  Paul is an accomplished PHP developer and presenter, the developer of the Solar PHP framework, and he's a great guy to boot.  While I frequently bluff my way through presentations (don't tell anyone), Paul really knows his stuff.  Don't miss Paul's presentation on Benchmarking.

Benchmarking

This talk will begin with an outline of the differences between "profiling" code blocks and "benchmarking" a system or subsystem. After a short discussion on the purpose and intent of running benchmarks, we will see how to set up a benchmarking system, including the "ab" tool and the experimental controls needed when doing comparative benchmarks. Finally, there will be real-life examples of comparative benchmarks between some major frameworks, and a description what the results indicate (and just as importantly what they do *not* indicate).