Lately I've been hearing a lot of people evangelizing that PHP with Resin is actually much faster than with mod_php, but I cannot find any benchmark anywhere.
Is it true or just vendor BS?
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There are some benchmarks on caucho.com, but they don't measure php performance. If there were favorable benchmarks, don't you think they'd be included there? Just guessing though...
Kim
2008-12-27 21:24:59
Do I suck if I don't think this is answer is really bad to deserve a downvote, It also does not provide a correct answer so no upvote either I guess (from me).
Alfred
2010-01-08 00:45:46
+1
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InfoQ has this video presentation from the 2008 JVM Language Summit on "P8, an implementation of PHP on the JVM. Topics covered include the reasons for bringing PHP to the JVM, an overview of PHP and P8 ..."
From what I've heard so far, performance was a topic of much discussion at the Summit, but I haven't had time to get through this presentation yet. However, I don't have any trouble believing that PHP source compiled into JVM bytecode and then run on a hot-spotting JVM would outperform a pure interpretation-based implementation.
joel.neely
2008-12-27 21:54:33