Continuing from our yesterday's post, we are checking the benchmarks for micro PHP frameworks.

It has been quite a while since we run our benchmarks against other networks. Actually the last time we had the benchmarks in our documentation was for Phalcon 1.3! Yes we know, we have been neglecting this.

The Phalcon Team is constantly trying to find ways of making Phalcon even faster while keeping a good balance in terms of features offered and performance.

This post is quite technical, explaining the inner workings of Phalcon.

Optimization is based on improvements concerning network connectivity, the web server optimization and improvement of the different elements that have their own websites, from HTML to JavaScript, CSS or going by the number of requests to DNS servers.

We're happy to announce that after weeks of refactoring and polishing, 0.4.x are now ready to be tested. Although, it's an alpha release, it has many improvements, specially focused on a more maintainable code base and get running applications even faster.