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I'm curious if they configured php with apc or zend optimizer. The huge difference is easy to explain as parse overhead for the framework's code, which happens on each request if you're not using a bytecode cache.

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Yep, this is exactly what I was wondering. Opcode caching is a key part of production PHP environments - in this case, since the code isn't changing, they should even disable the "change check" (apc.stat=0) as one would do in a production environment.

And if this is the case with their configuration of PHP, it makes me wonder what other platforms are not configured for production in this benchmark :)

The relation of PHP to everything else in this benchmark is so unusual among benchmarks, that I strongly suspect a failure of parity with other configurations. Hopefully that is unintentional.

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