Hi,
> Sucks when you need to use a proprietary extension to a language to make
> it benchmark well.
it would be nice to see PHP w and w/o ZEND competing against each
other.
but I don't think the raw cpu usage can be taken as a indicator for
judging a language. there are many other bottlenecks which play a much
more important role: database speed, file access latency (whatever you
need for storage). absolutely *no* reasonable programmer will ever use
PHP to calculate prime numbers or fractals (maybe with mathematical
extensions, but not with raw PHP code).
face it: PHP is "just" a layouting engine. it collects data from
different sources, gives it the final polish (formatting) and outputs
it. nothing more. and YES it's a very feature-rich layouting engine
and an excellent one, too.
Kind Regards,
Daniel Lorch
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