At 04:07 30/12/2001, August Zajonc wrote:
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From: "Zeev Suraski" <zeev@zend.com>
If you use caching software, chances are PHP will be faster than Perl even
without the optimizer.
Interestingly, Perl is getting bytecode caching soon, RFC 301 I think.
Probably about time.
That RFC is from over a year ago, what makes you think it's going to happen soon..? It still remains to be seen if they do it in a nice, clean transparent way, or the Perl way :) Anyway, the other problems plaguing Perl still apply (having to worry about resources&memory).
What gets people riled up about these benchmarks is they see them as a whole
picture slam against their favorite language, even if the benchmark is
pretty clear about testing something pretty narrow which I think these are,
they are remarkably honest for a benchmark.
Well, I think that benchmarking PHP like that out of any context is *bound* to result in many people getting the wrong ideas. So, a big disclaimer reading "This may not necessarily have any real world meaning" was due.
Zeev