PHP Performance Evolution 2016 from PHP 5, PHP 7.0, PHP 7.1 and PHP 8/Next

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22 points·christian_vigh··11 comments

It would be nice to compare a PHP performance with a performance of the other programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, NodeJS).

Very complete comparison of the performance of PHP versions over time. PHP 8 looks promising.

It is only missing some benchmarks on real world applications like WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Joomla, etc..

This account was created just minutes after this posting and immediately commented on it.

I'm sure it's just coincidence.

I think he runs the site: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/author/1.html

@velodrome, yes that is accurate. I create and moderate the site since many years ago.

@masonic you are right. I had an account many years ago but for some reason I could not recover it. The user names that I tried said there was no email assigned to it. So I had to create this account. It is weird. I could sware I created an account with my usual email address.

Anyway, I moderate the site, so I am the person that reviewed the article before publication. but the article was created by Christian Vigh in collaboration with Dmitry Stogov of Zend that reviewed the article for accuracy.

Great news, PHP focused for so long on ease of use that it became a victim of its own Legacy, things really picked up after 5.3!

Could you include HHVM as well?

It came in under PHP 7.0 in most other benchmarks that were issued (so higher than 5.6 but less than 7.0).

@Voycey, not sure about that, but HHVM has its own JIT engine.

That would be great. Maybe it would also be great to try Zephir to see if it makes any difference, although it is based in Zend Engine. I hope Christian like the idea.

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