So I took some time to run some benchmarks on my little VPS here, and the results seemed to be far more interesting at first that what they now appear. I really should throw it all in a big spreadsheet and make pretty multi-colored charts to see if anything stands out.
Mainly I was testing to see what memory could be saved with an opcode cache for PHP, as well as any speedup in page serving times, or reqs/sec. For all the tests, Drupal page caching was set to basic, and the MySQL query cache was enabled. The page loaded was the front page of this site.
All of the benchmarks are in the attached text file. Results from top are pasted in, followed by the results from ab for each test. Hope this helps someone.
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