RE: [PHP] Is Perl faster than PHP?

It all depends on the factors like Computer Hardware, Optimization of PHP for that System/OS , Network Factors and all . Though it has been the perl way , as it is almost more than a teenager of age now and has more modules written for it than for PHP , PHP is the beggining , but I am sure the Programmers around the world ,who code for PHP way , thier hardwork will not go waste. and also Shifflet , I know you are the one among , PHP is easier to code than Perl . Yeah , its true that top sites do not use Java or >NET , -----Original Message----- From: Chris Shiflett [mailto:shiflett@php.net] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:44 AM To: Merlin; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Is Perl faster than PHP? --- Merlin <news.groups@web.de> wrote: > 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? PHP and Perl are both key tools used to build many of the Web's top sites - Amazon, Yahoo, Ticketmaster, Google, etc. As a Perl developer worded it at this past week's ApacheCon, these types of sites "receive an obscene amount of traffic." How these two languages perform and scale relative to one another is entirely dependent on the design and implementation - neither is going to consistently be better than the other, but both are very good. You will notice that the top sites don't use Java or .NET. :-) Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security - O'Reilly HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams Coming February 2005 http://httphandbook.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php