Re: Speed comparison of PHP vs. PERL (not conclusive)

"Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0205311457120.19881-100000@www.lerdorf.com... > Sure, you could put it that way. When benchmarking something you really > should benchmark stuff that you actually care about. Benchmark PHP > spewing out a web page after making a couple of SQL queries, for example. > That's typical usage, so that is what you should benchmark. Very few PHP > scripts are going to loop a couple of hundred thousand times to do > something. > > -Rasmus > > On Fri, 31 May 2002, Ilia A. wrote: > > > Does this mean that running a comparison benchmarks between PHP and any other > > language would in many cases show PHP to be slower simply because it's > > looping code is slow? [...] It is typical usage, yes, but the conversation that gave me the idea to do the quick speed comparison was the idea that PHP can be used for more than just web-scripting. I have a couple maintenance PHP scripts that run command-line (usually management/maintenance programs for a large PHP+MySQL app), and there is the entire php-gtk project as well. (The whole conversation started because I pondered the idea of maybe writing a Win32 API extension for PHP) And a loop in PHP isn't exactly non-typical. I'd need more fingers and toes to count how many times I've wrote "while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { ... }" -- Daniel Grace