Re: Converting Perl to PHP?

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 aldham@lennon.postino.com wrote: > > Having recently done the exact reverse, the big change is to change all the > curly brackets, { , to square brackets, [ . > Then the DBI calls have to be changed. > > But as much as I like PHP, I have to wonder why you would convert from Perl > to PHP. I went the other way because I felt that PHP was bogging down under > load. When I ran the unix command top, I could see that serving up a fairly > intensive page was pinning out the CPU for 2 to 3 seconds. So I converted to > Perl, and then to Mod_Perl. Mod_Perl is over 20 times faster than PHP. > I have put my benchmarks generated with the apache utility ab up at > www.aldham.net/benchmarks/BenchMarks.php3 . All three benchmarks were run > on the same web server, same binary, same database underneath (Postgres). This benchmark only shows that your script performs badly. It does not show that "Mod_Perl is 20 times faster than PHP." That is a non-applicable very general statement. - Sascha