Benchmarks

Here is the comparison of running Zend/bench.php from the PHP source using VC++ 8.0 (Visual Studio 2005) and VC++ 6.0. The test was done on my Lenovo laptop with Celron M 1.6 GHz processor and 1.5 GB ram.

Test	VC8	VC6	%
simple	0,444	0,490	9%
simplecall	0,650	0,738	12%
simpleucall	1,220	1,235	1%
simpleudcall	1,634	1,591	-3%
mandel	1,390	1,519	8%
mandel2	1,712	1,909	10%
ackermann(7)	1,637	1,844	11%
ary(50000)	0,069	0,075	8%
ary2(50000)	0,061	0,061	0%
ary3(2000)	0,808	0,876	8%
fibo(30)	5,383	4,970	-8%
hash1(50000)	0,133	0,147	10%
hash2(500)	0,118	0,130	9%
heapsort(20000)	0,462	0,454	-2%
matrix(20)	0,373	0,375	1%
nestedloop(12)	0,789	0,855	8%
sieve(30)	0,350	0,390	10%
strcat(200000)	0,127	0,140	9%
Total	17,362	17,800	2%