Nick, 3 Things: 1) For a simple for loop, PHP, ASP, JSP, etc will all be able to execute 20000 (2000 x 10) iterations of a loop in less then 1 on decent hardware (my home PC does locally)... <?php for ($i=0; $i < 20000; $i++) { echo "$i <br>\n"; } ?> The numbers you quote are absurd, it entirely depends on WHAT IS INSIDE YOUR LOOP however. 2) I read a report to the effect that: PHP > ASP > Cold Fusion > JSP-tomcat (w/ no mention of .NET) number pages able to be rendered a second on the same Hardware it was some think like 70 to 60 to 30 to 20. Your results will depends who feeds you your propaganda, unless you test it yourself. 3) What does this have to do with the future of anything? Cold Fusion and Perl are not even mentioned here, but do you think they are going away anytime soon? Cheers, -Ironstorm Northern.CA ===-- http://www.northern.ca Canada's Search Engine On 2 Sep 2001 14:00:00 -0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #################### (Attached Message) ####################----- "nick" ----- php's future ----- Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:28:27 +0800 Hi all in the list : I read an news that said jsp/asp.net is better than php.. They made a test that asp/php/jsp/asp.net using "for loops", Jsp from 1 to 20000 takes only 4 secs Asp from 1 to 2000 (not 20000) takes 72 secs Php from 1 to 2000 (not 20000) takes 68 secs Asp.Net from 1 to 20000 takes only 3.5~3.8 secs... So is it time to learn jsp/asp+ instead of learning php ..??? I am so confused ~ I have been learning php for a while and now it said jsp/asp+ is better than it.@@ -- PHP General 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]