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

From:	Manuel Lemos	Date:	Fri, 31 May 2002 22:35:28 +0000
Subject:	Re: Speed comparison of PHP vs. PERL (not conclusive)
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Hello, On 05/31/2002 06:36 PM, Daniel Grace wrote:

The results: [dewin@ulysses profiling]$ time ./prime.php > /dev/null
real    0m14.465s
user    0m8.610s
sys     0m0.070s
[dewin@ulysses profiling]$ time ./prime.pl > /dev/null
real    0m5.302s
user    0m3.180s
sys     0m0.000s

Your measures do not distinguish between the compile time and execute time. I don't know about Perl, but since PHP 4, Zend engine first compiles PHP code into opcodes and only then it executes the code. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos