Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:31010 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 58665 invoked by uid 1010); 17 Jul 2007 17:40:44 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 58650 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2007 17:40:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Jul 2007 17:40:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 64.233.162.235 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.162.235 nz-out-0506.google.com Received: from [64.233.162.235] ([64.233.162.235:56954] helo=nz-out-0506.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 52/27-05050-A1FFC964 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:40:43 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id x7so1155852nzc for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:40:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kWaFq9SmE7is1+tLneF728ov8ZBTKiNRasHrcdNQKdW1RRwC6Gx8d9ffpOP90pIv0P9Jun4QJdCZXRy4mnRfdLPqdlPNSnLgn5XKqDyTQCZUYoWKztkjbSdwE0mjSwnE5/xjAyyQ/h1aZRLrsCShYPf+6YA3u4z6SahwRN7pstQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lQap/qUVM6NNcAfmAfrYzJA6XqK06uqsJON6sLWqeIR7NIRUjegBEUqRjk+IRPw/fqOI8V76BelEQFU8eGYe+cP/nm7Aa4I0eDT0bn9YxlTOlo8nyZQaO+lK5bQeIX2KDRLEq5gqN9HQ32H1OlVRbjmUTf+jlEPMe9Jb1AyWXD8= Received: by 10.114.127.1 with SMTP id z1mr641895wac.1184694039395; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.180.9 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:40:39 +0200 To: "Tomas Kuliavas" Cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <37043.78.61.224.253.1184693304.squirrel@avilys.eik.lt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648191@us-ex1.zend.net> <469B7FB1.1070507@pooteeweet.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648290@us-ex1.zend.net> <469C6436.2060009@pooteeweet.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE6483DF@us-ex1.zend.net> <469CD717.2070607@pooteeweet.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE6483EC@us-ex1.zend.net> <469CF5E7.60502@sci.fi> <37043.78.61.224.253.1184693304.squirrel@avilys.eik.lt> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre) On 7/17/07, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > >> 50% increase sounds off base. But I did not bench php6 yet. When all > >> the new features are implemented, it will make more sense to work on > >> the performance problem. For now, it is simply premature. > > > > If Moore's law stands for the coming years, this argument is moot anyway. > > By the time PHP 6 is out the door, any performance issues are > > insignificant. :) > > If you have setup with 10 machines and new interpreter works 10% faster, > you can serve same amount of users with 9 machines. Plus Moore talks about > number of transistors and not about performance or power consumption. Three core in one processor consume less than three different processors. More CPUs in one host will also faster than many hosts (processing power). Sorry, but Jani's reference to Moore is correct. But that's definitively not the topic :)