The benchmark provides insight into changes in PHP speed between versions, major and minor. IMHO that's useful information, nice
It tackles very little of PHP. One of the main changes of PHP5 (object references vs. copying) is missing for example. Of course it could be extended to contain more tests. But you'd also have to make sure that the test environment is always the same (that's why it's nonsense to post individual benchmark results here). Running the benchmark twice will give differing results, even if my quick test showed only around 0.35% difference on a completely idle machine, it's still there.
Having a PEAR framework to make benchmarking for core developers easy is A Good Thing(TM). Overestimating the importance of the current benchmark numbers is missing the point.
- Chris
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