Sasha Pachev wrote:
>
> I finally got around to installing PHP on our web
> server, and to celebrate the event, I decided to run a
> simple benchmark to compare CGI's in C, C++, Perl and
> SSI, PHP, and raw HTML. I must admit that the benchmark
> was greatly skewed to favor server parsed languages. The
> measurement in question was the response time for a
> request that would send the following HTML:
>
> <html><body>Hello,world</body></html>
>
> So really the test was about how it it takes to get
> started, since the amount of time it takes to send the
> result over 10MB Ethernet is less than 1ms. So here are
> the results (Linux 2.0.29, Pentium II 233, 64 MB RAM, UW
> SCSI, Apache 1.3.6 with PHP 3.0.7):
>
> Method Response time (ms)
> static HTML 2
> SSI 4
> PHP 5
>
> Statically
> linked
> C CGI 6
>
> Dynamically
> linked C CGI 9
>
> Raw Perl CGI 16
>
> Statically
> linked C++ CGI 19
>
> Perl CGI
> with
> require 'cgilib.pl' 37
>
> Dynamically
> linked C++ CGI 39
>
> Again this is all about getting started. Just "Hello,
> world", that's it. Obviously the results will change
> quite a bit on a more complex program. I will probably
> do more tests tomorrow and publish the results. If any
> body has any suggestions/requests, let me know.
>
> --
> Sasha Pachev
> http://www.sashanet.com/ (home)
> http://www.direct1.com/ (work)
Sasha,
I'm quite encouraged. Does this mean I don't have to learn PERL? >:)
Thanks for the test. Much useful.
Van
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