Decided to run a quick test to see how bcmath
operates on various versions of PHP, and noticed that the latest and greatest is lacking significantly in speed when compared to 4.3,
I am wondering if anyone knows what the reason behind this is, and/or how the speed can be improved on 5+ so that it is reasonably comparable to 4.3.
Also note, the memory consumption from 5.6+ is triple that which 4.3 requires for the same operation :