Could it be that silex is a bit slow?

[palindrom-zz]

Hi I tried to do some simple actions with silex (e.g. crud) but I think it is a bit slow. I use the simple /hello/{name} example and it needs about 1 sec until I see the response in the browser (measured in firebug). I mean only for displaying the name, one second is a long time. It shouldn't take longer than 250ms for such a simple action. Is this normal? Or is my apache not configured well?

[igorw]

You can use xdebug to profile your app. That will allow you to find the bottleneck. In firebug you can also see a breakdown of how long connection took, etc. But measuring this should really be done on the server.

[palindrom-zz]

The folling snippets needs one second for execution. There is only this request, no other ressources like images or css files.

require_once __DIR__.'/silex.phar';

$app = new Silex\Application();

$app->get('/hello/{name}', function ($name) {
    return "Hello $name";
});

$app->run();

Any suggestions why takes one second? I've got a simple ZF application where the whole dispatching needs one second too. So I think thats not normal. @igorw how long takes the upper request on your machine? less than 50ms?

[igorw]

It takes ~35ms here.

[palindrom-zz]

I made a profiling. I'm not very experienced reading the cachegrind data. http://www.fileserve.com/file/24qbByw But if I am reading correct there is a comulated time of 46ms. But why do I have 1sec in firebug when requesting the script? Is there something between browser and localhost? Which slows that down which i forgot?

[palindrom-zz]

I analyzed with firebug and it seemed that my dns lookup took so long. It was a Windows 7 problem! http://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2010/07/fixing-slow-apache-on-localhost-under.html I removed the semicolon of the localhost entry in the windows hosts file and now silex is fast. Strangely other simple non-framework php scripts were fast than ever.

[igorw]

In that case this issue can be closed.