Zend_Currency VERY slow? (help!)

MrStuff · #1 (**permalink**) 06-17-2008, 02:33 PM

Hey,

First post on the forum, it's a great resource been reading posts for a while... now I seem to have a problem of my own!

I have been using Zend Framework for a while now in various projects. I recently undertook a project that requires the use of currency. Naturally, I saw that Zend_Framework had Zend_Currency. I decided to give it a shot.

Midway in the project, I noticed my load times were hitting +1 seconds from 0.0xxx, after some trouble shooting I noticed it was coming from Zend_Currency. When I was creating multiple (or even a single) Zend_Currency object it was taking 1.0 to 2.0 seconds in the constructor...

Here is a snippet of code that I created to test.

PHP Code:


			
<?php
    for($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {
          $currency = new Zend_Currency('en_US', 'USD');
          //echo $currency->toCurrency(1000) .'<br>'; //If I uncomment this it does NOT add any significant load.        
     }
?>

If I set 10 as the max it takes about ~3.5xxx seconds to load.
If I set 1 as the max it takes about ~1.5xxx seconds to load.
(If I set it @ 0 it takes 0.00xx seconds to load)

I think this is very odd for Zend Framework. Everything else is lightning fast. This is why i'm thinking it's something i'm doing wrong. I was wondering if anyone has encountered this. If there is some type of config I need to do in the Zend_Locale or Currency that i'm overlooking? Or If i'm doing it totally wrong?

I am currently using Zend_Db and Zend_Acl with no troubles @ all.
p.s. I did RTFM several times!

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2008-06-24 Edit

I'm trying to achieve long lists of correctly formatted transactions using Zend_Currency