Oliver Grätz wrote: > And remember: PHP6 will not be released for at least a year. So by then > typical servers will run at several hundred MHz more, so perhaps the > speed penalty won't be noticed at all.
And people will do more with PHP ultimately making the MHz boost irrelevant. Despite tremendous increases in hardware performance, the software we run seems to run slower and slower. > This is even more true compared > to the current speed of PHP as there will (If I recall this correctly) > be significant performance enhancements of the Zend Engine with the > switch from 5.0 to 5.1. PHP 5.0 is MUCH slower the PHP 5.1, all PHP 5.1 does is bring the performance back on part with 4.X in most cases (not all, even) when used in conjunction with an opcode code cache such as APC. Ilia -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
