Re: php got stomped on in shootout, but shouldn't have...

http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2646800,00.html has a small table outlining the results of a page-based script language shootout between PHP, ASP, ColdFusion and JSP...PHP was the fastest, but in the accompanying review it was criticized somewhat for its lack of mature development tools and its eclectic set of functions (especially the lack of a standard database-independent API). PHP can be used outside a web environment, too, but I don't know how the performance stacks up against Java or C in that respect. I would assume it's slower, being interpreted and all, but it *was* significantly faster than JSP which often byte-compiles to servlets, so... peace, Nolan <hzimmer@tgd.net> wrote in message news:20010504113716.A1656@rand.tgd.net... > > Howdy. So I was checking out Perl, Ruby, and Java's > > performance specs on a language shootout, and PHP got stomped on. > > It was safely sitting at the bottom of the list (check out the score > > card page). > > > > > > http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ > > Ouch, this sucks... cool fucking site, though. Has anyone > done any benchmarks on this kinda stuff to see if PHP's faster than > Java or how it stacks up to C? -Hans > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >