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Nov 24, 2005View in Crawl 4
Are there any benchmarks that people are aware of comparing PHP4|PHP5|PHP5.1 as far as performance is concerned? I mean, it's easy to say that performance is improved... but what's the baseline?Was PHP5 faster than PHP4 for identical code? Thus making PHP5.1 even faster? Or was it a case of PHP5 being a bit more bulky than PHP4, thus PHP5.1 bringing it more inline with the old performance. I'm looking to upgrade of PHP 4.4.1 installs, but I'm holding off on PHP5.1 until eaccelerator (open source PHP accelerator) becomes compatible. As it is, PHP5.0.5 is the last supported version. But if 5.0.5 is slower than 4.4.1, I'll hold off.Thanks in advance.
Now that 5.1.x is released, those damn webhosts will [hopefully] finally upgrade to a real language instead of using that outdated mess of PHP 4.x. I remember webhosts that still used 4.2.x when 4.4.x was the standard 4.x release...
karchNov 25, 2005
arghhhhhhhhhh, i JUST, literally JUST finished setting up a wampr dev environment with 5.05.hah, it's not really a big deal, but .. goddamnit.
tempusrobNov 25, 2005
Awesome! I've been waiting for this specifically for the PDO functions. Time to install...
motionblurNov 25, 2005
PHP is awesome. Film at 11.
opus20745Nov 25, 2005
Are there any benchmarks that people are aware of comparing PHP4|PHP5|PHP5.1 as far as performance is concerned? I mean, it's easy to say that performance is improved... but what's the baseline?Was PHP5 faster than PHP4 for identical code? Thus making PHP5.1 even faster? Or was it a case of PHP5 being a bit more bulky than PHP4, thus PHP5.1 bringing it more inline with the old performance. I'm looking to upgrade of PHP 4.4.1 installs, but I'm holding off on PHP5.1 until eaccelerator (open source PHP accelerator) becomes compatible. As it is, PHP5.0.5 is the last supported version. But if 5.0.5 is slower than 4.4.1, I'll hold off.Thanks in advance.
junxNov 28, 2005
Now that 5.1.x is released, those damn webhosts will [hopefully] finally upgrade to a real language instead of using that outdated mess of PHP 4.x. I remember webhosts that still used 4.2.x when 4.4.x was the standard 4.x release...