Generally, a perfect C implementation will always be quicker than a PHP implementation, because the scripting engine has its overhead. However, whether or not you write perfect C code is a different question :)
Zeev At 16:51 19/11/2001, colin mcdonald wrote: >Hi, I apologize in advance if this is not the place to ask. I just >figured, I'd get a better answer from this group. > >Is there a performance increase by compiling your code into php (either >dynamic or static) as opposed to writing complex code in php. > >Note: this bit of code would be used by every request in the application, >reads many files and does a lot of string parsing. > >thanks, > >colin > >-- >Colin McDonald - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > home: http://nexus.carleton.ca/~colin/ > public key: http://nexus.carleton.ca/~colin/pubkey.asc >fingerprint: http://nexus.carleton.ca/~colin/fingerprint.asc > > > >-- >PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]