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!

Unfortunately, I could not found any release notes for this new version, so I cannot post which improvements they’ve made besides the performance.

I’ve updated the test application, so it now connects to weborb 3. You can run it here.

All I can say is thumbs up for the Midnight Coders, and keep up the good work.

Cheers!