Re: Converting Perl to PHP?

> > > Perl, and then to Mod_Perl. Mod_Perl is over 20 times faster than PHP. > > > > You say that like you did a real benchmark. Your PHP script running slower > > than your mod_perl script proves only that your PHP script was slow. > > Benchmarking is a difficult art - first you have to figure out what it is > that you're measuring, and proceed very carefully from there. I completely agree. It's quite a leap to go from knowing that script.pl is faster than script.php to conclude that Perl is faster than PHP. One of the biggest challenges is to decide whether you're benchmarking an algorithm or a result. While some people are interested in the performance of the raw language, most application programmers are not going to care that $Language[0] is x% faster on $Algorithm if $Language[1] has a native function which returns the same results and is faster than $Algorithm implemented in either language. Chris