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PHP 5.3: Up to 30% performance win

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Dmitry posted results of performance test comparing PHP 5.2 and 5.3 to internals which are impressive numbers:

  • Drupal 20% faster
  • Qdig 2% faster
  • typo3 30% faster
  • wordpress 15% faster
  • xoops 10% faster


Up to 30% performance win by simply updating PHP! Please help us with the quality assurance and test your applications using a 5.3 snapshot - we can't cover every usecase, you can!

And again as a sidenote: 5.2.6RC2 is out, please test that, too :-)

Posted by Johannes Schlüter in PHP Comments: (9) Trackbacks: (0)
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Jonathan Street said,

Tuesday, March 25. 2008 at 16:30 (Link) (Reply)

It seems as though PHP is getting faster and faster. Not so long ago there was talk about the speed boost gained by upgrading from PHP5.2.1.

http://www.thinkingphp.org/2007/09/26/php-521-was-a-evil-release-check-your-server/

P.S. Is your layout intended to be this 'odd'?
Johannes said,

Tuesday, March 25. 2008 at 22:54 (Reply)

Jonathan,

well, we always try to improve our releases. For benchmarks: See also Sebastians results at
http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/745-Benchmark-of-PHP-Branches-3.0-through-5.3-CVS.html

And about the design here: Yeah, I should sit down and improve it, it's somewhere on my TODO.
Sebastian said,

Tuesday, March 25. 2008 at 17:42 (Reply)

Yeah, without complex CSS it's even faster! ;-)

SCNR
George said,

Tuesday, March 25. 2008 at 21:49 (Reply)

Black text on white plz. k. thx.
sf said,

Wednesday, March 26. 2008 at 09:48 (Link) (Reply)

30%?! it is unreliable! cool :-)
Adam said,

Tuesday, April 8. 2008 at 21:13 (Reply)

How much of this boost was made by the native MySQL driver?
atf said,

Wednesday, April 9. 2008 at 22:20 (Reply)

Is there any ETA yet on PHP 5.3? I'm developing on a snapshot (and loving the LSB) but it'd be great to have some idea when to expect a release, and the only (vague) suggestions I can find were for Q1 2008.

Thanks!
Jackson said,

Monday, March 16. 2009 at 15:36 (Reply)

See more on PHP 5.3 features
http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/what-is-new-in-php-53-for-php-amateurs/
martin said,

Friday, August 5. 2011 at 22:26 (Link) (Reply)

whow, up to 30%, that sounds good.

i'm now in a process of performance-optimization and i'm using 5.1.6 - i think i will try an upgrade.

best,
martin

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