RE: [PHP] Speed comparison of PHP vs. PERL (not conclusive)

From: Jason Wong [mailto:php-general@gremlins.com.hk] >Try comparing reading 10K rows from a DB using Perl and PHP would be a more >useful benchmark. --- When's the last time you wrote a Web page that needed 10K rows displayed? Writing good _and relevant_ benchmarks is one of the more difficult things to do in CS. Personally, I look at the time it takes me to code and debug things since that's the most expensive part of the cost equation to my customers - hardware's cheap compared to me. I can get something of production quality up and running on PHP much faster than I can in Perl - probably due to 20 years of programming in C - so my customers are happy. Considering that 95% of the time the bottleneck is the bandwidth, not the application code, and the other 5% of the bottleneck is in the database application section, my customers don't demand any artificial language benchmarks. Mark C.