Posted by Robert Cummings on 08/15/05 00:00

On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 16:32, Jochem Maas wrote:
> Sebastian wrote:
> > Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
>
> ...
>
> >
> > explain "better performance".
> >
> > if i have a script written on php4 and i run it on php5 i doubt its
> > going to be any faster..
> > even so, i don't think there is much if at all any speed gain from php4
> > to php5... speculating of course, but i have yet to read any evidence
> > php5 is faster than php4.
>
> bloomin' try it for yourself.
>
> >
> > a few extra features isn't enough to convince *most* to switch to php5.
> > now if they say php5 is 20% faster than php4 than i would upgrade
> > overnight ;)
>
> call me legion, we say "php5 is 20% faster than php4".
> happy now.

Lies :) But it is very likely that if you have an app that makes heavy
use of OOP that you might actually get a 20% speedup. Though that will
depend on whether you passed your objects around by value or by
reference.

Cheers,
Rob.
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