RE: [PHP] Re: PHP or ASP

> -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Catalano [mailto:nick4753@nozone.net] > Sent: June 27, 2000 1:01 PM > To: PHP_LIST Genaral > Subject: [PHP] Re: PHP or ASP > > > OK, here is the truth.. > > If you have the choice of either ASP or PHP3, and you allready know > VbScript, then go with ASP Provided you use IIS as a webserver. >, it is faster than PHP3 According to the information I've seen, PHP3 and Apache are a little slower than ASP and IIS on Windows for trivial tasks*. However, for involved tasks, particular ones involving loops, it appears that PHP3 and Apache perform 10 times as fast as ASP and IIS on windows. * This is expected, Apache is not very well optimized for windows. Ref: http://www.caucho.com/articles/benchmark.html > if you are just creating a simple webpage, and don't want to > learn VbScript, use PHP... better yet, use PHP4, the Zend > Engine is faster than ASP (most of the time), Perl, and Cold > Fusion... If PHP3 is a little slower than ASP in ASPs native environment, and PHP4 is much faster than PHP3, it stands to reason that PHP4 is somewhere between a little faster and a lot faster than ASP is ASPs native environment and thus in PHP4s native environment it is much, much faster than ASP. This is, of course, merely an eudcated guess until someone actually does the testing, but it's supported by the evidence. > Also, I hear that PHP is slower on a windows machine, so ASP > may be a better choice if that is the case > That is the only situation in which ASP out performs PHP3. :) > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >