Re: [PHP] PHP4 vs PHP5 Performance?

i dont know Robert; i think it depends upon the structure of ones business.
for instance; i work for a company full time, and have a start up of my own.
in both of those situations there is no impact on the client in the act of
eliminating php4 from the product implementation. the clients never use the
code directly. perhaps you are in some different business??

also, there are many, many enhancements to php5 that php4 does not have.
most notably the oop facilities. but also, exception handling; re-written
XML
infrastructure (SimpleXML, DOM) and a host of new functions not found in 4.
also, the __autoload feature, and even external tools such as SPL make php5
far superior to php4, imho :)

if its a little slower, i dont really care; ill be using optimization
techniques and
have them mastered w/in the next few months so any innate speed difference
will become negligible in my projects.

i probly shouldnt use the word idiot and php4 in conjunction, to reflect my
feelings
because i might actaullly offend some people on the list :)

-nathan

On 8/25/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 00:28 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote:
On Friday 24 August 2007, Lester Caine wrote:
What would be interesting is if a group picked up PHP4 and kept
going
with it in spite of the end of life announcement a few weeks
back. I
wonder if the PHP license would allow such a thing. How open is it
exactly?

The PROBLEM is that supporting PHP4, 5 and now 6 is detracting from
solving
some of these problems. Until we can get away from HAVING to support
PHP4,
then PHP5 will not get the full fine tuning it needs. Proposing to
maintain
a branch of PHP4 will then result n people expecting all of the major
frameworks to work on it - and WE need to be able to concentrate on
USING
PHP5 properly rather than having to bodge things still to be backwards
compatible with PHP4 :(

The "major frameworks" have already agreed that PHP 4 is dead, even
before the
PHP dev team did.

http://gophp5.org/

*yawn*

Anyone expecting anything but a custom in-house application to continue
to
work in PHP 4 by next year is simply not paying attention. Let it rest
in
peace.

I think many applications will continue to work in PHP4 regardless of
the gophp5 project. It's not very hard to make applications work in both
PHP4 and PHP5. I would argue that only an idiot needlessly cuts off more
than half of their clientele. Elimination of PHP4 updates doesn't mean
suddenly 100% of the PHP install base becomes PHP5.

Cheers,
Rob.
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