How good is PHP performance?

Question

This is a follow up to a recent post I\'ve seen which suggests that PHP performance is poor:

\"PHP. IS. ALWAYS. THE. BOTTLENECK. My server farms, let me show you them! P

Answer 1

Currently there is a project going on with the PHP developers to build better Benchmark tools for PHP.

The project leader did a talk recently on Google Techtalks called Compiling and Optimizing Scripting Languages, and it's a very interesting talk.

Also I did a PHP application size check the other day.

• PHPBB 1.3mb
• Joomla 6mb
• Wordpress 11.3mb

That's data loaded into memory.