Re: Re: [PHP3] VBS/Perl/PHP Performance Test
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Fri, 24 Dec 1999 14:36:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [PHP3] VBS/Perl/PHP Performance Test | ||
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At 04:23 PM 12/24/99 +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>I think the main reason why Perl is so much faster than ASP & PHP in that
>benchmark is because regular expressions are part of the language syntax.
>Thus the regex's are compiled at compile time. In PHP, although there is a
>regex cache for PCRE regex's there is more of an overhead as they aren't
>embedded as part of the language.
Right, and that's the reason Perl can do a couple more tricks with regex's.
Man, Perl internals scare me. I had to wade through pp_hot.c to figure out
some regex stuff and I swear I'd never seen such convoluted programming before.
-Andrei