As of 30/04/2008, the Midnightcoders have released a new version of WebOrb for PHP (version 3.0.0). (Thanks David C. Moody for letting me know). And boy, they’ve certainly improved the performance!

In my previous post WebOrb was a factor 4 slower than it’s opponent, AMFPHP. With this new version, the difference is much smaller. I ran the ‘invoke large dataset’ test and the difference was only 40ms (It used to take 6 seconds, it now takes 270ms). So AMFPHP still holds the speed record, but WebOrb is closing in! more…

The other day, we were discussing remoting frameworks and the options you have on a php server. At my work, we use AMFPHP, and never really looked for other solutions. For .NET applications we use WebOrb, so I was wondering how the php version of WebOrb would perform. The results are quite shocking.
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