> Steve Willer has written a few words about PHP and Embperl. Look at
>
> http://perl.apache.org/embperl/Sites.pod.1.html#http_www_webpersonals_com_St
Well, the 10-20 times performance difference is very
questionable. Depends a lot on what you are doing. For most stuff PHP is
about 30% slower than static pages on a site. So for anything to be even
twice as fast as PHP it has to be faster than static pages.
> there are also other stories about Embperl. The main decision I think is, if
> you want to use perl (which you can also use in non Web contextes) or you
> want to use PHP's own language.
Although PHP is specifically geared to be a web scripting language it
actually does work as a standalone language and can be put right alongside
perl in /usr/local/bin on your system. Plenty of people do this, although
personally I would rather use Perl for non-web stuff.
-Rasmus
