I know that in our websites we benchmark queries made to the database instead of the PHP performance.
Another thing is a microtime(true) in the beginning and end of your script, and comparing the time, then change some code to see if it produces a slowdown.
But it really depends on what you're doing with your application. It this for a website, crawler, etc?
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I know that in our websites we benchmark queries made to the database instead of the PHP performance.
Another thing is a microtime(true) in the beginning and end of your script, and comparing the time, then change some code to see if it produces a slowdown.
But it really depends on what you're doing with your application. It this for a website, crawler, etc?