Re: Speed comparison

In article <Pine.GSO.4.05.10006141210570.16409-100000@aurinko.taivas.com>, tuupola@appelsiini.net (Mika Tuupola) wrote: > Has anyone done speed comparison between different technologies > and languages which can be used in creating dynamic web sites. > Something like php vs jps vs asp, and preferably done on equal > hardware. Any such benchmarks are always highly suspect based on how good the tester is at their OS. Based on the numbers I've seen over the years, I'd say it goes like this: Baseline: Static Pages Tier-0: C Tier-1: PHP4, modPerl, Python Tier-2: PHP3, Perl CGI, JSP? Tier-3: ASP, CF?, JSP? Note that any of them are fast enough to flood the network at trivial (benchmark) tasks, so you're really hard-pressed to say what's fastest. A big part of any decision should be which language is easiest/fastest to develop in, and which has the most maintainable code, and which is the most portable to new technologies/platforms, and which can you find people who want to do that work... (Anybody want to try hiring people to code web-pages in COBOL? I doubt it.) I think PHP is the winner all-around on these criteria. Obviously I'm biased, so this should be taken with a grain of salt. :-) -- Richard Lynch | If this was worth $$$ to you, buy a CD US Customer Support Director | from one of the artists listed here: Zend Technologies USA | http://www.L-I-E.com/artists.htm http://www.zend.com | (this has nothing to do with Zend, duh!)