Keith's Weblog: Comments on "PHP to Java compilation is faster than vanilla PHP? Duh.", posted on December 21, 2005 http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2005/Dec/21/Caucho Programming en-us http://keithdevens.com/weblog http://keithdevens.com/images/kbd.gif http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2005/Dec/21/Caucho#comment8889 http://keithdevens.com/weblog/7774#comment8889 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:06:39 +0000 <p class="st-markup">The guys building php.NET (<a href="http://www.php-compiler.net/">http://www.php-compiler.net/</a>) also claim better performance: <a href="http://www.php-compiler.net/Benchmarks.htm">http://www.php-compiler.net/Benchmarks.htm</a></p> http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2005/Dec/21/Caucho#comment8895 http://keithdevens.com/weblog/7774#comment8895 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:36:36 +0000 <p class="st-markup">Unsurprising as well. What I have been surprised about in both these cases is that they're not <em>much</em> faster. That benchmarks page lists 1.7 to 2 times better running against a Zend Optimizer enabled install of PHP. And as those links from TextDrive show, you can significantly improve the performance of a PHP application just by running it on lighttpd.</p>