hm... I am not sure that I agree with you... when you benchmarked the
application swas php a loadable module in apache? I did some source level
profiling, and the actual spawn and connection took longer on my
applications than using a persistant connection in php and having the
interpreter loaded in the web server...
especially when an application is mainly database bound (like searching
through x records, where x is a large number.) Most of the time is not
going to be spent in your code, it is going to be spent waiting for a
response...
of course... i could be wrong ;)
some random guy.
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On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Ed Carp wrote:
> > .. the difference is so minimal its not funny, but overall PHP has got to
> > win for web based stuff
>
> Not at all. It all depends on what you're looking for, and what your
> experience level is. If your site is going to get a lot of hits, C is the
> best tool, because it's the fastest. If you have limited programming
> experience, PHP or PERL will perhaps fit your needs better, because it's
> more of a RAD tool than C is, but you trade off speed and flexibility.
> But no interpreted language will be faster than compiled native code,
> that's just common sense.
>
> For example, I have a web page that uses MySQL to generate an index of
> news headlines and links. I wrote this in C, because it had to be fast -
> when you're searching a database of 24,000+ headlines, and have multiple
> people banging away at the server, it pays to make it as fast as possible,
> and the HTML was no harder to generate than it was in any other language.
> PHP or PERL would've been at least half as fast (I know because I
> benchmarked the same app written in C, PERL, and PHP).
>
> There's a saying in certain programming circles that people who don't know
> how to program choose PERL or PHP, people who do choose C or C++, and I
> think there's a certain amount of truth in that. Why is MySQL qritten in
> C, rather than in PERL? It would've certainly been easier. Why is most
> system software written in C? Why is it that most every modern operating
> system is written in C or C++?
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