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)