Re: Re: [PHP3] VBS/Perl/PHP Performance Test

On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 08:36:26AM -0600, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > 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. They worked on it how long? Perl had much more time to evolve than PHP, so it does not make me wonder, if PHP still has one or two areas where it is not better than or at least comparable to PHP. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant