A super simple PHP script for testing PHP performance on various platforms, run it via the command php bench.php; example output:
C:\php bench.php
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| PHP Benchmark Script |
| 2016-04-06 16:30:21 +02:00 |
| PHP Version: 5.6.8 // OS Version: WINNT |
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| Results |
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| Math Test: |
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| Min | Max | Avg |
| 52.214 sec | 52.474 sec | 52.386 sec |
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| String Test: |
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| Min | Max | Avg |
| 50.245 sec | 50.56 sec | 50.38 sec |
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| Loop Test: |
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| Min | Max | Avg |
| 5.538 sec | 5.569 sec | 5.558 sec |
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| IfElse Test: |
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| Min | Max | Avg |
| 3.893 sec | 3.908 sec | 3.899 sec |
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| Total time taken: 336.667 sec |
| Peak Memory usage: 279.02MB |
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I have used this benchmark script to test a few platforms, by results can be found in this gist here.
If you have any additional PHP system performance based tests that you would like to add to the mix, feel free to fork and send a PR.
I would like to add disk i/o based performance testing to be able to see how the filesystem performs as that is one of the biggest bottlenecks I have found on certain cloud platforms.
This PHP benchmark script was heaviliy influenced by one written by Alessandro Torrisi available here.