On 17/11/2004, at 2:54 AM, Merlin wrote:
it came to my attention that most of the high traffic portals are using perl in the backend. Those sites do also apear to me to be very fast in comparison to most php sites. Are there any known performance comperissons between the two available? Or can one say that PHP or Perl is faster about x percent in general compared to the other one?
Unless you compare the same site written and optimised for the two languages, written by a developer who is equally skilled in both languages, hosted on servers of equal performance, with equal traffic, you can't compare the sites and make a bold assumption like "Perl must be faster".
When you compare two website's performance, you're not just comparing code at all... you're comparing traffic, server load, the programmer's skills, the server set-up, bandwidth, connectivity, etc etc.
Would you compare a Ferrari to a Volkswagon? They're both cars, right? :)
For what it's worth, PHP5 under FastCGI on a nice server with a good sysadmin is *incredibly* fast. Shameless plug: TextDrive.com (a hosting company in the US that just hired me) offers exactly that -- blindingly fast PHP5 shared hosting with the works.
Justin French --- http://justinfrench.com/ http://indent.com.au/
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