> > 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
And Zend is going to be even faster????
> > 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
> >
