Benchmark Results PHP 56 vs PHP 70

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PHP 56 vs PHP 70 Benchmark

Summary

• Framework: Laravel 4.2.17
• OS: Mac OSX 10.11.2
• Model: MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
• Webserver: Apache 2.4.16
• Configuration: mod_php
• Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
• Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
• Method: Apache Bench

Test route covers Routing, Session, Database and View Rendering

Results:

• PHP56: 51.76 Req / Sec
• PHP70: 177.43 Req / Sec

PHP70 is ~3.42 times faster

Details

Below are the details and test params:

$ php -v
PHP 5.6.16 (cli) (built: Dec 23 2015 15:39:37) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies

$ ab -c 10 -n 1000 http://caresys.dev/auth/login

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1663405 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking caresys.dev (be patient)
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Server Software:        Apache/2.4.16
Server Hostname:        caresys.dev
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /auth/login
Document Length:        1756 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   19.321 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      2403828 bytes
HTML transferred:       1756000 bytes
Requests per second:    51.76 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       193.205 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       19.321 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          121.50 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.1      0       1
Processing:    95  192  48.9    180     564
Waiting:       95  191  48.7    179     564
Total:         95  193  48.9    181     565

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    181
  66%    191
  75%    199
  80%    207
  90%    222
  95%    240
  98%    397
  99%    454
 100%    565 (longest request)

PHP70

$ php -v
PHP 7.0.1 (cli) (built: Dec 29 2015 17:18:09) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2015, by Zend Technologies

$ ab -c 10 -n 1000 http://caresys.dev/auth/login
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1663405 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking caresys.dev (be patient)
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Server Software:        Apache/2.4.16
Server Hostname:        caresys.dev
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /auth/login
Document Length:        1756 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   5.636 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      2402204 bytes
HTML transferred:       1756000 bytes
Requests per second:    177.43 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       56.359 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       5.636 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          416.24 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.1      0       2
Processing:    19   56  49.0     40     350
Waiting:       19   56  49.0     40     350
Total:         19   56  49.0     40     350

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     40
  66%     48
  75%     53
  80%     67
  90%     86
  95%    164
  98%    243
  99%    290
 100%    350 (longest request)