Found this to be really interesting. Despite adding in full Unicode support, and massive restructuring, the performance difference between the two is *very* small in all but the most extreme cases. Looks like they are really keeping it tight in PHP6.
http://php6dev.blogspot.com/
PHP6 v. PHP5 comparison
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Not that suprising as most of the changes are small upgrades to string library and elsewhere that is touched by Unicode.
I get the impression that with PHP6 they are hoping that Unicode (plus an accumulation of would-be-nice new features) is the thing that will get hosting companies to start upgrading (and help them increase usage in Asia). The fact that PHP6 has not major language changes makes it more like PHP 5.2 in reality. Deserved or not, PHP5 has a reputation at this point and they are probably hoping the name change will help marketing the upgrade.
I get the impression that with PHP6 they are hoping that Unicode (plus an accumulation of would-be-nice new features) is the thing that will get hosting companies to start upgrading (and help them increase usage in Asia). The fact that PHP6 has not major language changes makes it more like PHP 5.2 in reality. Deserved or not, PHP5 has a reputation at this point and they are probably hoping the name change will help marketing the upgrade.
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