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5.3 and 5.4 are a lot better, but I can't say I'd use them for long running daemons. Personally, I usually use Python daemons that spin up a PHP instance if they need.

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GC is sure better in 5.3 as it was not available in 5.2 :)

Well, I think there was GC but no cyclic GC in pre-5.3.

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