The Phalanger developers have published an updated set of benchmarks of their PHP compiler running on top of .NET vs PHP and Cached PHP, and the results are impressive:
There are two cases on the language shootout where they are slower than PHP (out of eighteen cases) and they are also slower on eight of thirtyone microbenchmarks.
But in general with real applications like WordPress and MediaWiki, the performance gains are impressive.
Posted on 05 Mar 2012