Offering up his opinion on the whole Apache 1 continues to be faster than Apache 2 for running PHP debate, John Lim has a new posting over on PHPEverywhere today.

Early adopters of software are very valuable people, because they are the "crazy" people who actually enjoy making bug reports and boasting that they bought Betamax and not VHS. Early adopters often equate "new" with "better". There's nothing wrong with that, but you have to be careful with software. Ilia shows us that Apache 1 continues to be faster than Apache 2 for running PHP.

[...] So I do expect that Apache 2's performance running PHP will do a few jumps and eventually catch up. The question is when it stops being an early-adopter software and really becomes mainstream for the professional webmaster.

He makes a good point here - software development does seem to make these huge leaps when its performance is improved that much. I mean, look at how PHP 5 is such a leap from even PHP 4...