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

On Sat, 5 May 2001, Nolan Andres wrote: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! not this thread again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *flashback* -Sterling (Original poster:: No offense, we just discussed this to death when the article came out ;) > > 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 > > > > > >