Re: [PHP4BETA] Zend vs. Perl benchmarks?

Zeev Suraski wrote: > > At 22:46 14/06/99 , 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.) > > We never put any Perl benchmarks up, we only sent a couple on a fairly > initial stage of Zend to core@. I can wrap up a couple of ultra simple > tests (like an empty loop, a couple of function calls, in fact, I think we > actually have these tests on the cvs tree), but I'm not upto writing a full > featured benchmark. > > The reason we didn't pursue this was that we though we'd better lay off > Perl instead of attacking it head first. I'm not sure about that approach > though. We just had a guy here for the past week, who was Mr. Perl from the onset... - though after having seen PHP3 (let alone PHP4/Zend) they were soon converted) :) Though they didn't mention speed - they were soon happily writing PHP4/Zend scripts by the end of the week - and they didn't comment on it being any slower... Is this a scientific test? - No, but it does relate to 'real life' experience :) ... -Kp