PHP MySQL & Performance

Question

i am setting up PHP & MySQL on my local development machine. i want to find out about things to consider for performance. some considerations i have below. i will like to hear more about optimizing my development machine for performance/best practice. i am on windows 7 x64

• IIS/Apache: i hear IIS have better performance?
• What optimizer or caching? i hear from here that Optimizer+ has better performance than APC?

any other ideas?

Answer 1

First of all do a profiling of your php-application to see where are the bottlenecks. I you know the bottlenecks, you know where to cache and what to optimize.

You can profile you application with xdebug (http://www.xdebug.org/) or Zend Studio (http://www.zend.com)