On 06/06/10 00:06, Adam Ruppe wrote:
On 6/5/10, Jeff Nowakowski<[email protected]> wrote:
Why is this interesting? D is a static, compiled, "system" language
designed to be near the speed of C. PHP is a scripting language, similar
to Perl, but built to make web coding easier.
The reason I did the benchmarks was because I was talking to someone
about it, and he said "yeah, php sucks, but isn't CGI really slow?" It
isn't, not with D.
It isn't anyway, at least not with fastcgi - take mod_php vs php in
fcgi, fcgi is far *far* faster.
If you don't address request speed and scalability, nobody's going to
listen to the other benefits. Opening with a statement like "200%
faster" keeps their attention.
That is a huge speed improvement, always a good opening statement!
The biggest benefit, however, isn't running speed, but instead code
maintainability.
Being the only two languages I'd call myself fluent in, I'd definitely
call D easier to maintain than PHP... I guess this is easily debatable
though.
If you
want your article to be taken seriously, you'll have to show code
written in idiomatic PHP that benefits from being written in idiomatic D.
That's the plan. I'm hoping to write this up next weekend.
