Latest benchmarks of Phalanger – the PHP compiler – running various systems are depicted below. The graphs show performance of recent version of Phalanger in contrast to current versions of PHP.
WordPress performance:
WordPress 3.1.2 page response time using PHP and Phalanger. Up to 250 users were continuously requesting pages. Note that this does not correspond to actual 250 human users, because the test runner requests the web site in a loop without waiting (and reading the article). Tests depicted above run on Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 2MB cache, 4GB DDR3 RAM with Windows 7 Professional and IIS 7.5.
Micro-benchmarks
Each test of an operation was performed ten million times on Core i7 2600, 3.5 GHz, 16GB DDR3 desktop machine, running Windows 7 64 bit with .NET 4.0.
Each test of an operation was performed ten million times on Core i7 2600, 3.5 GHz, 16GB DDR3 desktop machine, running OpenSuse 11.4 with Mono 2.10.2 in virtual machine using VmWare.