Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:5503 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69700 invoked by uid 1010); 17 Nov 2003 00:44:16 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69676 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2003 00:44:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO longsword.omniti.com) (66.80.117.3) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 17 Nov 2003 00:44:15 -0000 Received: from ip-66-80-117-254.nyc.megapath.net ([66.80.117.254] helo=[10.0.1.3]) by longsword.omniti.com with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.14) id 1ALXV1-00023M-LP; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:44:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3FB800C0.80701@cschneid.com> References: <3FB800C0.80701@cschneid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-ID: <2691E768-1897-11D8-BC34-000393B2B3C0@omniti.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sebastian Bergmann , internals@lists.php.net Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:44:07 -0500 To: Christian Schneider X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP Benchmark From: george@omniti.com (George Schlossnagle) On Nov 16, 2003, at 5:57 PM, Christian Schneider wrote: > Sebastian Bergmann wrote: >> http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/PHP_Benchmark/ >> Any comments, feedback, corrections and additions are welcome, > > You've done a good job but we basically only see two things: > a) PHP4 is an order of a magniture faster than PHP3. > b) PHP5 is about the same speed as PHP4. > > No big surprises there, let's move on... I think you miss the point. Comprehesive benchmarks are nice so that you can evaluate the effects of and prevent performance accidents often associated withnew changes. It's not groundbreaking stuff, but it's very beneficial to have and to run often. George