Re: [PHP4BETA] Zend vs. Perl benchmarks?
| From: | Stig Bakken | Date: | Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:43:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP4BETA] Zend vs. Perl benchmarks? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.version4 |
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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Monte Ohrt wrote:
> Zeev Suraski wrote:
> >
> > 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.
Perl has a larger memory footprint as soon as you load some library code,
mostly because PHP has much of the same functionality built in. IMHO,
comparing Perl/PHP memory use just with small test scripts makes no sense.
- Stig