Tim Starling wrote:
I'd like to upgrade to PHP 4.4.0 compiled with gcc
4.0.1. We tried
compiling PHP with the Intel C compiler a while ago, and although it was
faster, the compilation procedure was complex, and it lacked that free
software purity, so we didn't stick with it. But now that gcc has many
of the same optimisations (loop unrolling, autovectorization, etc.), the
speed improvement over gcc 3.x might be comparable. It would be
interesting to do some benchmarks.
I _think_ we've got all the 4.4.0 reference-handling kinks worked out in
1.5/HEAD now, so I would not object to that. Might be worth a quick home
benchmark first though.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)