From: Jason Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Try comparing reading 10K rows from a DB using Perl and PHP would be a more
useful benchmark.
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When's the last time you wrote a Web page that needed 10K rows displayed?
Writing good _and relevant_ benchmarks is one of the more difficult things
to do
On Sunday 02 June 2002 02:12, Mark Charette wrote:
From: Jason Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Try comparing reading 10K rows from a DB using Perl and PHP would be a
more useful benchmark.
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When's the last time you wrote a Web page that needed 10K rows displayed?
Never.
Perhaps you
Not very surprising. Perl's looping code has always ben faster than
PHP's. Highly iterative loops is really not what PHP is geared for. You
are not going to write a Mandelbrot algorithm in PHP. You write it in C
and drop in a super-quick extension into PHP and call mandelbrot().
-Rasmus
On
Does this mean that running a comparison benchmarks between PHP and any other
language would in many cases show PHP to be slower simply because it's
looping code is slow? Unless, timing is done on a speed of PHP being able to
spew out webpages via the webserver with a webserver benchmark tool
Sure, you could put it that way. When benchmarking something you really
should benchmark stuff that you actually care about. Benchmark PHP
spewing out a web page after making a couple of SQL queries, for example.
That's typical usage, so that is what you should benchmark. Very few PHP
scripts
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Sure, you could put it that way. When benchmarking something you really
should benchmark stuff that you actually care about. Benchmark PHP
spewing out a web page after making a couple of SQL
I agree that in most cases it makes more sence at seing the webpages per
second benchmark rather then a timing of some artibtrary benchmarks that for
example seeing how long it take to pick prime numbers. Since in the end it
matters how quickly you can get the data to the user, in case of perl
On Saturday 01 June 2002 06:20, Daniel Grace wrote:
language would in many cases show PHP to be slower simply because it's
looping code is slow? [...]
It is typical usage, yes, but the conversation that gave me the idea to do
the quick speed comparison was the idea that PHP can be used
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