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PHP6 v. PHP5 comparison
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:05 pm
by Roja
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/
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:58 pm
by Christopher
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.
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:03 pm
by John Cartwright
That's an interesting point. Boy am I anxiously awaiting the eventual shift of servers with the latest major php versions

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:48 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Agree with Aborint. A lot of the PHP6 hype seems to constantly revolve around changes which effect usage and uptake - not language syntax and such. Unicode by itself is enough for a lot of folk to change to PHP6 when its ready. We already have MySQL in the unicode family.