Re: Is Perl faster than PHP?
| From: | Robby Russell | Date: | Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:24:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Is Perl faster than PHP? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:54 +0100, Merlin wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> it came to my attention that most of the high traffic portals are using perl in
> the backend. Those sites do also apear to me to be very fast in comparison to
> most php sites. Are there any known performance comperissons between the two
> available? Or can one say that PHP or Perl is faster about x percent in general
> compared to the other one?
>
> thanx for any hint,
>
> Merlin
>
It really depends on how you're running them.. is PHP or Perl running in
mod_* or is it running as a CGI?
Which is quicker to program in?
Yahoo uses php for some of their stuff, I would say that is a pretty
high traffic site.
-Robby
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