Bard Farstad has had trouble with ez publishthis new post on his blog.

Running PHP and eZ publish on PowerPC based Macs have been extreemly slow and now that I have eZ publish running on the Intel based Mac I tried to tune it to get maximum performance out of it when running eZ publish as I was not satistied with my previous tests.

He tries three things - patching the eZ publish intsallation with the latest update, installing a patch for the PHP installation on a FreeBSD machine, and finally trying out the ICC compiler for OS X and see if it helped (it didn't). Unfortunately, he's still looking for a cure for his Mac/PHP woes and would love some input from anyone out there noticing the same issue.