note 67258 deleted from faq.languages by sobak

Note Submitter: bb at servertje dot nl ---- I think it's worth to mention that it's incredible easy to write a PHP module in C and use it in your scripts with the speed of true machine language. All the PHP API functions are there and there's plenty of examples due to the many existing modules and their source codes. The advantage here is programming the relative simple business logic in PHP and programming those core functions that really require speed in PHP modules, if you really have to. Compiled Java classes act more like optimised / confuscated scripts and still needs an interpreter in the end. The only disadvantage about PHP is the somewhat quirky language and inconsistant (and long) function names, which makes it hard for newbies to learn from scratch.