Here I run the PHP benchmark script on my Virtualbox guest OS Ubuntu 16.04.
Every version of PHP I tested 7 times. So get rid of the highest one, and the lowest one. Get the average of the rest five scores.
php5.6.39
The average is 5.13 seconds.
-------------------------------------- | PHP BENCHMARK SCRIPT | -------------------------------------- Start : 2018-12-20 17:49:49 Server : t.g2list.win@192.168.1.120 PHP version : 5.6.39-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 Platform : Linux -------------------------------------- test_math : 1.523 sec. test_stringmanipulation : 1.594 sec. test_loops : 1.147 sec. test_ifelse : 0.808 sec. -------------------------------------- Total time: : 5.072 sec.
php 7.1.25
The average is 1.859 seconds.
-------------------------------------- | PHP BENCHMARK SCRIPT | -------------------------------------- Start : 2018-12-20 17:41:51 Server : t.g2list.win@192.168.1.120 PHP version : 7.1.25-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 Platform : Linux -------------------------------------- test_ifelse : 0.517 sec. test_loops : 0.378 sec. test_stringmanipulation : 0.561 sec. test_math : 0.389 sec. -------------------------------------- Total time: : 1.845 sec.
php7.2
The average is 1.286 seconds.
-------------------------------------- | PHP BENCHMARK SCRIPT | -------------------------------------- Start : 2018-12-20 17:44:37 Server : t.g2list.win@192.168.1.120 PHP version : 7.2.13-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 Platform : Linux -------------------------------------- test_ifelse : 0.164 sec. test_loops : 0.274 sec. test_stringmanipulation : 0.495 sec. test_math : 0.336 sec. -------------------------------------- Total time: : 1.269 sec.
php7.3
The average is 1.31 seconds.
-------------------------------------- | PHP BENCHMARK SCRIPT | -------------------------------------- Start : 2018-12-20 17:47:16 Server : t.g2list.win@192.168.1.120 PHP version : 7.3.0-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 Platform : Linux -------------------------------------- test_ifelse : 0.181 sec. test_loops : 0.350 sec. test_stringmanipulation : 0.469 sec. test_math : 0.323 sec. -------------------------------------- Total time: : 1.323 sec.
I do have to say that the tests I run is not good enough. It does’t test all the php features. Actually, it is just a very small part of it.
If you count on the database, memory usage, etc., the answer will be quite different.
