Hi there
I'm a great believer in using the right program for the right job. I need some advice from people who use both PHP and Perl. I've long been a fan of PHP and we use it for all our development work. However, I seem to keep coming up with a bit of a problem when using PHP and I just wanted to see if I was right or if there's something I'm not doing right.
Basically, we are bringing emails in from a client that all contain large files - usually between 12mb and 15mb in size. This side of what we are doing cannot be changed unfortunately. When we use PHP to parse these files it often times out - I understand that we can flush data and we call set_time_limit() occassionally to reset the time counter, but PHP really seems to struggle. It just seems that every job I work on that needs to parse large files or do something like web crawling that we always come across these problems. A couple of people have said that we should look at Perl because it is better at this kind of thing and thats why I'd be interested in opinions about it from people who know - ie those who regularly code in both
Appreciate any comments or suggestions or even if you can point me to any sites that cover this as I looked and couldn't find any
thanks
Johnphp-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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