On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 15:34 -0500, Jason Clinton wrote:
Here's some more fuel for the fire:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all%E2%8C%A9=php&la...
Which is essentially that PHP is 50 to 250 times slower than the open-source ASP.NET/Mono. Of course, disclaimers associated with benchmarks go here. :)
Any caching that might be implemented by mod_php in C isn't show here, of course.
Well I'm not curious enough to repeat the tests myself, but plenty of free php accelerators out there.
I always load one (usually zends), and see significant performance increase.