what is best way to improve performance of zend framework?

Question

zend framework has many components/services I don't need, it has many includes. All this I think slow down application. Do you know how to speed up it? may be remove not used(what is common) components, or combine files to one file?

Answer 1

1. APC or eAccelerator (APC will be included by default in future releases, so I'd recommend using it, even though raw speed is slightly below of eAccelerator)

2. Two level cache for configuration, full-page, partial views, queries, model objects:

   • 1^st level cache (in memory KV-store, APC store or memcached)
   • 2^nd level cache (persistent KV-store in files, SQLite or dedicated KV-store)

3. RDBMS connection pooling, if avaliable.