PHP 7 Alpha 1 was released yesterday, marking the beginning of the PHP 7 major series, though the GA version is scheduled to be released by the end of 2015. PHP 7 has improved performance, up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6, and consistent 64-bit support. “2015 is shaping up to be an amazing year for PHP. You’ll not only benefit from a whole slew of new features but also from performance going through the roof!” promises the PHP team. Quite exciting, isn’t it?
PHP LSAPI 6.2’s new features should lead to improved memory usage. (more…)
In the last post, we benchmarked the uploading speed of LSWS 4.2.2 (with Ruby LSAPI 4.1) against Nginx with Passenger for a Ruby Rails Rack application. But rewindableinput was not our only change in Ruby LSAPI 4.1. (more…)
I simply couldn’t believe it when I saw a benchmark result that FCGI beats LSAPI, (more…)
After reading [Scoundrel’s blog “Looking for Optimal Solution: Benchmark Results Summary and Findings”](http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/08/28/ruby-performance-results/), I am pretty surprised that LSWS + LSAPI falls behind. The best performer in his tests is nginx + FCGI. “All right, let me spend some time benchmarking them.” I said to myself. (more…)