Category: benchmarks

Editorial: To Benchmark, or Not to Benchmark?

You might have seen some headlines recently about Google’s plans to retire their Octane JavaScript benchmark suite. If you’re not aware of this or didn’t read past the headline, let me briefly recap. Google introduced Octane to replace the industry-standard SunSpider benchmark. SunSpider was created b...

Benchmarking: Can AppServer Beat Symfony’s Performance?

After the release of the first part of our Appserver series, it was clear through the ensuing discussions on both SitePoint and Reddit that we had touched a nerve for a good number of PHP channel’s devoted readers. I also quickly realized this new (for PHP) technology had a good number of serious doubters. One o...