SLOW MySQL after php update

[ttocskcaj]

php: 5.3.5

mysql: 5.1.41

using xampp

Hey. I just updated php from 5.3.1  to 5.3.5 (this was to run mediawiki)

After extracting the new files into I got the error Call to undefined function mysql_query() so I read the sticky on here about fixing it, I activated the php_mysql.ini module and MySQL was working again. The only problem is, it's taking around 1 second to process even the most simple queries.

I put together this, to make sure it wasn't just my application.

$test = 0;
while ($test <10){
$time_start = microtime(true);
mysql_connect("localhost",'myuser','mypassword');
mysql_selectdb("test");
$sql = mysql_query ( "
		SELECT *
		FROM `users`
" );
mysql_close();
$time_end = microtime(true);
$time = $time_end - $time_start;
echo "SQL test $test (traditional) $time seconds<br />";
$test ++;
}

which outputs this

SQL test 0 (traditional) 1.028904914856 seconds
SQL test 1 (traditional) 1.0245990753174 seconds
SQL test 2 (traditional) 1.0092370510101 seconds
SQL test 3 (traditional) 1.0117390155792 seconds
SQL test 4 (traditional) 1.0150861740112 seconds
SQL test 5 (traditional) 1.010293006897 seconds
SQL test 6 (traditional) 1.0164570808411 seconds
SQL test 7 (traditional) 1.0244569778442 seconds
SQL test 8 (traditional) 1.0180909633636 seconds
SQL test 9 (traditional) 1.0186388492584 seconds

What is wrong? is it MySQL or my php configuration? Here's my php.ini file

http://pastebin.com/Zkbqrq3u

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I think it's probably PHP I can access the database with HeidiSQL and it works fine.

[ttocskcaj]

Incase anyone is interested. I fixed by updating to the new version of XAMPP  1.7.4 VC6