A little while back, we mentioned some of the benchmarking that phpEverywhere was doing with one of the new suites, and now, with some solid results behind them, they've posted a graph of the results.

Sebastian is doing some neat work on testing performance. I found it hard to decipher the data, so I graphed it in Excel. There seems to be some drop-off in performance in PHP 4.3.4. I guess the core developers are putting their energies into PHP 5.

Overall, the numbers look good, showing that PHP has, in fact, grown quite a bit since it's infancy as a set of Perl scripts why back when. Unfortunately, as he mentioned, there does seem to be a bit of a dip in the stats for PHP 4.3.4 on just about every test on the board. It's interesting, especially for people like me who like to keep up-to-date on their installs.