Surge 2010 ~ PHP Performance Checklist
There has been a lot of interest in PHP performance lately, spurred by Facebook's HipHop PHP announcement in February. Most people don't know how fast their site is and will make uninformed architecture decisions or spend time optimizing the wrong things based mostly on myths and innuendo. This talk will try to get you started down the path of a systematic approach to benchmarking, profiling and optimizing your entire web site.
Rasmus' slides can be viewed at http://talks.php.net/show/surge