Comments on: Quercus PHP performance compared to Apache mod_php + APC

By: carcharynchos

carcharynchos — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:53:09 +0000

You don’t need Resin any longer, but for the compiling version you need a license, which you don’t get for free (except for evaluation). I got results with Tomcat / Quercus (without license) which were about 40% slower than with Apache / mod_php / xcache, which is definitely quite fast and definitely OK for a development server or some little PHP scripts, not to mention the possibility to use any java class within PHP code.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:38:54 +0000

That is because you are using the interrupted version. You need to run Resin to run the compiled version.

By: BM

BM — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:26:40 +0000

Actually, Quercus is almost 50% slower for me. How I did that?
1. Installed Quercus in GlassFish.
2. Went to CPU game website and took a bunch of tests. In particular this one is very slow on Quercus and fast on Zend’s: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=php&id=1

Try yourself.

By: S

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:38:47 +0000

Not so. Quercus is faster than even Zend PHP. Quercus, being 100% java and acting as just another java servlet can take advantage of the following java strengths out of the box: multithreading, thread pooling, pooled database connections, incredibly fine grained performance tuning of the JVM it runs under and massive scalability.

On a personal note, the selling points above combined with the fact that I could integrate into my applications my own file upload servlet based on the fantastic Apache Commons FileUpload library (as opposed to being stuck with the lame and resource intensive C-PHP upload functions) had me sold and I haven’t looked back. I’ve been developing with Quercus PHP for over a year now and couldn’t be happier.