How to liven up a dull blog
Performance problems again, but this time at an application level. So I finally get around to trying out PHP profiling tools in earnest. XDebug and WinCacheGrind give very useful information where a script is spending its time, without having to go dropping bits of benchmarking code around.
I know this is old news - I’ve just not had a real need before now. So I go hunting for good info on how to get the most from WinCacheGrind, and the project’s SourceForge homepage has a really interesting approach to livening up what could otherwise be a slightly dry geeky subject.
Not an approach I would feel adopting long term, but I thought I might try it out just once…
