Re: Automatic performance benchmarking: PHP 8.1 is ~30% faster than PHP 7.4
| From: | Matthew Weier O'Phinney | Date: | Thu, 25 Nov 2021 18:26:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Automatic performance benchmarking: PHP 8.1 is ~30% faster than PHP 7.4 | ||
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 12:17 PM Máté Kocsis <kocsismate90@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry Folks, but I have to provide some update about the results:
>
> Unfortunately, due to a silly bug in my calculator code, the % differences
> in the benchmark results were slightly off from their real values, so I
> have just retroactively adjusted them.
> In fact, the Symfony demo app on PHP 8.1 is ~23% faster than on PHP 7.4,
> while Laravel runs ~21.5% faster on PHP 8.1 than on PHP 7.4. In my opinion,
> this performance increase
> is still very remarkable, so I'm not disappointed at all that the
> improvement is slightly less dramatic than I previously suggested.
Honestly, anything over 10% improvement when it comes to performance,
particularly in a programming language, is significant. 20% can have a
huge impact on production loads!
In any
> case, sorry for the misleading news!
>
> I wish a happy PHP 8.1 release party to everyone:
> Máté
>