Symfony lead Fabien Potencier has posted a new set of Symfony 2 benchmarks on the project’s site, showing that Symfony 2 is faster than many of the common PHP frameworks out there, including Symfony 1.4.2.

Paul Jones, who develops Solar, however, tried to reproduce Potencier’s results and was unable to confirm his findings. Jones has posted his results and details of his tests in a blog post titled, “Running the Symfony 2 Benchmarks“. He found that Symfony 2 is only 5% faster than Solar 1.0.0beta 3, compared to Potencier’s findings of 20% faster, and had trouble reproducing the Lithium and Flow3 benchmarks using . the latter’s code; according to the blog post, Jones intends to investigate the code provided by Potencier to see if there is a discrepancy there that is causing the failures.

All in all, php|a is pleased to see that Paul’s benchmarking process is being utilized by other frameworks, and we are looking forward to seeing faster frameworks in the future.