Interesting... There are a couple of other tests that PHP does poorly on. http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/lang/php/ might be worth looking at. --enable-inline-optimization only made a small difference for me. Generally my results matched up pretty closely with Dougs for the few tests I did on my machine and I didn't catch a lot of unoptimized code.
While these are clearly synthetic tests, that looping was similar actually to something I did for a big reference tree of 400,000 odd users that would take up to an hour to complete. Web apps in the end are made up of a bunch of these synthetics. What was suprising to me is that other scripting players like perl did reasonably well on some of them. Java has a more impressive showing than I would I have thought as well. Certainly some interesting food for thought. - August Curious looking forward (ZE2) where PHP is moving performance wise. My sense is that the focus is more feature oriented. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zeev Suraski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "August Zajonc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Sterling Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Markus Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout > Taking that code and coupling the Zend Optimizer, PHP and Perl were > approximately the same speed (Perl was 8% faster, but that probably varies > across platforms). > > W/o the optimizer PHP was 2 times slower, but again, that's only because > this is not a very real-world piece of code, at least for our space > (scripting languages). > > Zeev > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
