Re: [PHP4BETA] Zend vs. Perl benchmarks?

Zeev Suraski wrote: > > At 23:01 14/06/99 , Monte Ohrt wrote: > >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. > > I don't see any reason why PHP would have a lower memory consumption than > Perl... > > Zeev I've heard (mostly from usenet posts) that mod_perl has a larger memory footprint than PHP. I've never seen any hard facts though. It would be nice to benchmark this and get some real numbers. Monte