Re: [PHP4BETA] Zend vs. Perl benchmarks?

Jim Winstead wrote: > > Didn't there used to be Zend vs. Perl benchmarks on zend.com? > > A potentially big user of PHP just asked about their relative > performance. (Actually, the question was more like "I've heard that > Perl performs WAY better than PHP, is that true?" I tried to > enlighten them, but having a benchmark to point them at (which > they can pass on) might help the cause a bit.) > > Jim > > -- > PHP 4 Beta How about the difference in memory resources? Doesn't PHP have a much lower memory overhead than perl? I would think that swapping to disk in low-memory situations would affect performance. :-) Maybe the benchmark tests should point this out somehow. Monte