In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I've only worked on one serious site of this type and it was "SAJO" >(Solaris Apache Java Oracle) rather than LAMP, but the concepts are >the same. I just feel like something bogus has to be going on. I >think even sites like Slashdot handle fewer TPS than a 1960's airline >reservation that ran on hardware with a fraction of the power of one >of today's laptops.
Something I saw recently was that XML has inherently horrid performance for searching precisely because it isn't fixed-length records. Yes, the old platforms handled more TPS, but they also handled much less data of a form much more amenable to indexing. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code -- not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
