Re: [PHP] Is Perl faster than PHP?

2004-11-20 Thread Curt Zirzow
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Re: [PHP] Is Perl faster than PHP?

2004-11-19 Thread Justin French
On 17/11/2004, at 2:54 AM, Merlin wrote: it came to my attention that most of the high traffic portals are using perl in the backend. Those sites do also apear to me to be very fast in comparison to most php sites. Are there any known performance comperissons between the two available? Or can

Re: [PHP] Is Perl faster than PHP?

2004-11-18 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Merlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it came to my attention that most of the high traffic portals are using perl in the backend. Those sites do also apear to me to be very fast in comparison to most php sites. Are there any known performance comperissons between the two available? Or can one

RE: [PHP] Is Perl faster than PHP?

2004-11-18 Thread Mulley, Nikhil
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:44 AM To: Merlin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Is Perl faster than PHP? --- Merlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it came to my attention that most of the high traffic portals are using perl in the backend. Those sites do also apear to me to be very

Re: [PHP] Is Perl faster than PHP?

2004-11-16 Thread Robby Russell
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:54 +0100, Merlin wrote: Hi there, it came to my attention that most of the high traffic portals are using perl in the backend. Those sites do also apear to me to be very fast in comparison to most php sites. Are there any known performance comperissons between

Re: [PHP] Is Perl faster than PHP?

2004-11-16 Thread raditha dissanayake
Merlin wrote: Hi there, it came to my attention that most of the high traffic portals are using perl in the backend. Those sites do also apear to me to be very fast in comparison to most php sites. Are there any known performance comperissons between the two available? Or can one say that PHP

Re: [PHP] Is Perl faster than PHP?

2004-11-16 Thread Brent Baisley
Since both Perl and PHP are scripting languages, I don't think you could definitively say one is faster than the other. First and foremost it's the talent of the coder that makes a program fast or slow. Perl has been around a lot longer and so the libraries (i.e. CPAN) are more refined and

Re: [PHP] Is Perl faster than PHP?

2004-11-16 Thread Brad Pauly
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:54:22 +0100, Merlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, it came to my attention that most of the high traffic portals are using perl in the backend. Those sites do also apear to me to be very fast in comparison to most php sites. Are there any known performance