Last week I posted some comparative performance result that I got from comparing the relative performance of PHP on PHP 5.2 to PHP 5.3, PHP on Linux to PHP on Windows and PHP to ASP.NET.
First, I want to thank the PHP community for their responses. With only a few exceptions the PHP community proved that they are not a bunch of teenage jealous (anymore :) ? ) but rather a group of professionals, confident in their work and ready to engage in respectful dialog.
A couple of my friends in the PHP community (See: to Andi Gutmans & Brandon Savage) took exception to the perf results ? and for fair reason.
In my tests I declined to install PHP op-code caching for my tests because its not installed on some of the hosts I use and is not built in to PHP (yet ? though I understand it will be in a future version and is part of Go to the complete details ...