On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Chuck Burkins wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > (Pascal) compiler based CGI is magnitudes faster than PHP, less resource > > consuming and much easier to maintain. The only advantage of PHP is that > > is easier to use for beginners and that's probably the only reason why > > PHP is so popular: you can hack quickly something together but > > maintainance, performance etc. are nightmares. > > With all due respect (and that *is* a lot of respect), I disagree. I > leave out the relative speed of PHP vs. compiled pascal, as I've never > use Pascal in CGI. I have got over 100,000 lines of PHP code in > service, so I think I can safely comment on that. > > PHP does not in any way burden a modern web server, at least when used > as an apache module. My test server at work has 128MB of RAM and only > occasionally does it slow down noticably, typically when MySQL is > working on a particularly ugly join. In my experience, the speed of > well written PHP is indistinguishable from the speed of the same > static HTML, as long as you leave out any database interaction (and > Pascal of course would have database interaction as well). Well. Since we switched to Mantis (PHP based, Apache module) for the bug-tracker, we have nothing but problems with the webserver. So obviously, your mileage may vary. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
