Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP Benchmark

2003-11-16 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Nov 16, 2003, at 7:53 PM, Christian Schneider wrote: To achieve your goal I suggest someone builds benchmarking into the regression tests, i.e. 'make benchmark-tests' or the like, outputting a machine readable format. It would then be possible to automatically compare two versions on a much w

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP Benchmark

2003-11-16 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Nov 16, 2003, at 7:44 PM, Christian Schneider wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: The benchmark provides insight into changes in PHP speed between versions, major and minor. IMHO that's useful information, nice It tackles very little of PHP. One of the main changes of PHP5 (object references vs. copyi

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP Benchmark

2003-11-16 Thread Christian Schneider
George Schlossnagle wrote: I think you miss the point. Comprehesive benchmarks are nice so that you can evaluate the effects of and prevent performance accidents often associated withnew changes. It's not groundbreaking stuff, but it's I'm just not convinced that these little microbenchmarks a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP Benchmark

2003-11-16 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Nov 16, 2003, at 5:57 PM, Christian Schneider wrote: Sebastian Bergmann wrote: http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/PHP_Benchmark/ Any comments, feedback, corrections and additions are welcome, You've done a good job but we basically only see two things: a) PHP4 is an order of a magniture fas

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP Benchmark

2003-11-16 Thread Christian Schneider
Mike Robinson wrote: The benchmark provides insight into changes in PHP speed between versions, major and minor. IMHO that's useful information, nice It tackles very little of PHP. One of the main changes of PHP5 (object references vs. copying) is missing for example. Of course it could be extend

RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP Benchmark

2003-11-16 Thread Mike Robinson
Christian Schneider wrote: > Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > > http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/PHP_Benchmark/ > > Any comments, feedback, corrections and additions are welcome, > > You've done a good job but we basically only see two things: > a) PHP4 is an order of a magniture faster than PHP