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PHP OO slowness is (not) bogus?

August 29, 2006

So this guy, let's call him Ronald, told me about a bug report someone filed against PHP 5.1.6:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38630

The bug report includes a link to my benchmarks I wrote against and early version of PHP 5:

http://destiney.com/benchmarks/db_insert_select

The funny thing is the PHP developer who responded thinks it's "normal" for OO style PHP to be 3+ times slower than regular procedural PHP.

I'm astounded no progress is being made to make OO PHP faster.

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php, object, oriented, bug

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