On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Nick Stinemates <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If I wrote the console application in a c language (and compiled) would > one > > expect to see any improvements in performance? If so, how much > improvement > > could one expect (in general)? > > Depends. Shitty algorithms are shitty, regardless of language > implementation. > right, but there shitiness is relative to the performance of the underlying language. according to the great computer language shootout, if OP implemented in C / C++ he could expect something along the lines an increase in performace ~ 23x greater than the current php implementation. obviously there are many factors here; and well i dont think weve even found out what the script is doing :O. if its having to deal w/ lots of external calls for example to a database or remote system, those will still be major bottlenecks. but as far as processing the data and running though logic, yes there is much performance to be had by compiling. -nathan
