[ckh]

I have a script I'm running that I'm not interested in protecting it, but, more interested in speeding it up.

I have the server using the loader so it doesn't need to load it individually, just wondering if encoding it will make it run a bit faster and if using binary would help a bit too plus take a bit of a load off the server....

[liaison]

With the Loader already installed, you should may see a measurable speed improvement. We test encoded applications with 'ab', the Apache benchmarking tool, and get good results for entire encoded applications. Binary encoding will give the best, although ASCII encoding is highly efficient too.

The best way to get speed improvement though is to use a code cache. Our PHPA may be suitable, or mmcache. Avoid Zend Optimiser as the cost of optimising is usually more than the speed gain, and so you get a net performance drop rather than gain.
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[ckh]

I tried the phpa and it didn't work. It's on a freebsd server and when I rebooted, any php script would cause an internal 500 server error. It was the same with mmcache also. However, the current freebsd ioncube loader works just fine although if you know of something that may cause that, I would like to run phpa on it to speed up all the php scripts running on it (there's quite a few active ones there so it would definately help server performance)

Chris

[jeff]

You should try encoding your php application... I notice that when I encode my applications they actually run quite a bit faster since the PHP engine has to skip the bytecode conversion when the php script is run.

-Jeff