Re: [PHP4BETA] Zend vs. Perl benchmarks?

Stig Bakken wrote: > > 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. > Good point. Just about any HTML application built in perl would require loading in library code of some sort, so benchmarking test scripts would not be a fair comparison for real world use. The memory footprint could wildly vary on a case by case basis, depending on the application's requirements. Monte