CLI is still unacceptably slow

this has been adressed and for me on my machines cli is now significantly faster. fixed at least in RC1

ok.. I will raise my hand again if I can manage to provide a useful patch. ;-)

The CLI is still unacceptably slow. I see this primarily with Doctrine, but I think there's an underlying problem as well.

I believe the Doctrine issue is because it doesn't do autoloading as efficiently as Propel. Propel appears to have a custom autoloader specified in its autoload.yml, while Doctrine just does a basic recursive search. The project_autoload.cache file I get for Propel is 18KB, while the one I get for Doctrine is 70KB, almost four times as big.

But the other, more subtle issue is that it appears the sfPluginConfiguration::initializeAutoload method recomputes the entire cache even when it exists. What's the point of the cache, then? [Aside: I just did a quick step through, and it appears initializeAutoload is being called twice, doubling the cost.]

This is on a vanilla SVN version, updated a few minutes ago, with two projects (for Propel and Doctrine, respectively), each with the appropriate default ProjectConfiguration? that calls enableAllPluginsExcept, with the appropriate ORM and sfCompat10Plugin excluded. It's on Windows Vista 64, which may have different performance characteristics from Linux when it comes to walking the plugin directory tree. I've done time ./symfony in both directories, and I'm getting just over 13 seconds for Doctrine, between 2.7 and 3.0 for Propel (AMD Turion 64x2, 1.8GHz, 2GB). I've repeated the command several times in a row, to check consistency and to get the benefit of OS caching. In my opinion, anything over a second for a vanilla ./symfony command is too long.

i found the same, initautoload is called twice, i asked fabien about this already.. ill take some time tonight to debug this. got another xdebug dump of a slow cli command

(In [13363]) [1.2] made command line much faster. fixes #4928

i made a fix that will be in rc2 you need to take copy the new "symfony" file from data/bin into your project root to get the change

This is certainly an improvement. My Doctrine times have gone to about 8.2-8.4 seconds, while the Propel times are now closer to 2.5. Still, I can't help but believe there's more room for improvement.

Hello,

I am not sure this is valid for sf1.2, but in sf1.1 classes are defined twice. I have to comment the first autoload declaration in the plugin.

autoload:
#  Doctrine:
#    name:       Doctrine classes
#    ext:        .php
#    path:       <?php echo realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../lib') . "\n"; ?>
#    recursive:  on
  doctrine_model_classes:
    name:       Doctrine model classes
    ext:        .php
    path:       "%SF_LIB_DIR%/model/doctrine"
    recursive:  on

r13392 should have fixed this