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

On Saturday 01 June 2002 06:20, Daniel Grace wrote: > > > 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)) { ... }" I would have thought that any inherent 'slowness' of looping code is insignificant compared to the time it takes to retrieve a row from a db. Try comparing reading 10K rows from a DB using Perl and PHP would be a more useful benchmark. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* Thank God a million billion times you live in Texas. */