Speed of PHP4

Anon

I am trying to convince my boss to let me upgrade to PHP4. (For added functionality and speed).

If I could show him some benchmark tests, or stats on the speed difference between PHP3 and PHP4, I am sure to win.

Can someone point in the direction of any such information?

Thx

andre @ performance technologies

toma42

The most conviencing benchmark you could possibly show him would be on your own code. Just setup php4 on a development box and run your code against it after running your code against php3 on the same box.

amcgrath

Or, create an elaborate document showing how much better it is... lie, cheat,steal, whatever, just upgrade 😉

Anon

My boss installed and configured the box I am using... Is their much to it...
Installing Apache and PHP on Linux_ppc?

I'll give that a shot.

Thnx

andre @ pt

Anon

there is NO reason you shouldn\'t have kept up with the PHP upgrades, just tell your boss he is dumb, and then do it.

Anon

Actually, we had strong reason to wait. We are shipping telecom solutions internationally, and we dont want to spend our precious R&D time supporting newly released versions of PHP.

but thnx anyway,

andre @ performance technologies

mithril

Perhaps...... but I'd hardly consider PHP4 a "new release". Since all new releases of PHP support all the functionality of the previous releases there's no time involved with support. The bleeding edge CVS builds may cause problems, but the stable releases are termed stable because they are.

As for installing..... it's not hard at all. Just read the installation section of the manual for Linux. Once you've got that running, grab the Zend Optimizer from zend.com and benchmark your existing scripts on both boxes (see the microtime() function in the manual for a simple benchmark script).

The numbers will have your boss quickly wondering why he's still running a version which is no longer being developed...... there's good reason why PHP4 was and is a major step forward.

-geoff

Anon

I wouldn't say you could just drop in PHP4 and expect everything to be peachy. I upgraded 2 of our servers and promptly broke a couple of hundred pages. It has to do with my MySQL connection scripts not working correctly in PHP4 (work fine in PHP3) so until I have the time to fix these pages we will stay with PHP3. These are commercial sites and a couple of large hospitals that can't have much downtime to fix things.

moonie 😉