Re: Benchmarks

It's much more than that. Perl doesn't cache compiled scripts either, or rather, its caching is extremely limited, and IMHO pretty much unusable (e.g., you have to restart the server every time a script changes). PHP alone is as fast as Perl (and slightly faster, as the benchmarks show). PHP coupled with Zend Cache is probably several times quicker than Perl for most Web purposes. Zeev At 17:37 16/3/2001, Chris Adams wrote:

On 16 Mar 2001 04:39:06 -0800, Phil Driscoll <phil@dialsolutions.co.uk> wrote: http://www.perlmonth.com/features/benchmarks/benchmarks.html?issue=4&id=9351 4159 A performance comparison of various web scripting languages. PHP does rather well! It's also important to note that their comment that PHP doesn't cache compiled scripts and thus may not scale as well isn't completely true. The default install doesn't, but you can use one of several products (Zend Cache, Afterburner and a third whose name escapes me) to ensure that your scripts are cached. -- 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

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