"Adam Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.103.1275615255.24349.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >I recently rewrote a huge PHP application in D2. It isn't a completely > fair comparison, since the PHP was written by, well to be polite, PHP > "programmers", but the results were pretty astounding. > > 90% reduction in lines of code [!], 200% improvement in speed under > heavy load (only 50% improvement under light load, still good, but not > as good), and the code is actually maintainable! Also, the original > took about a year for the first team to write. My D rewrite took 6 > weeks. Oh yeah, and the PHP is riddled with security holes. Not so > much with the D. > > The best part about the speed is that it is just running as plain old > CGI and my code does a lot of inefficient looping through XML. I could > probably double the speed again by improving that. >
Comparing D to PHP is like comparing a 747 to the Hindenburg. :)
