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[Paul M Jones]

On Sep 2, 2007, at 7:02 AM, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Suppose I don't want it to be so obvious that I'm using PHP on a  
> site, Or that I just want the freedom to not always use PHP in a  
> given document. Thus I decide to configure Apache to treat  
> all .html files as PHP files.
>
> How much overhead does this add for the common case when a file  
> only contains static data, no PHP? Would I notice the hit?

Depends on the particular server, but:  merely invoking the PHP  
interpreter, you can expect it to cut your requests-per-second by 40  
to 60 percent.

Scroll down to the "Baseline" heading here for more info:

     http://paul-m-jones.com/blog/?p=238



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