On 4/3/2012 9:50 PM, Jim Schueler wrote: > Hope this doesn't get trapped by too many spam filters. > > Sad news. Just saw a blog > > http://www.highscalability.com/ > > that reports YouPorn.com switched from Perl to PHP. Apparently there's a > reported 10% > improvement in speed, but I haven't noticed :). > > After a couple months of total immersion, I have less inclination towards > PHP than ever. Fight's not out of me yet.
If one is comparing an every-connection mod_perl enabled environment to a specific-content, fastcgi-proxied php buildout, there's no contest. When was the last time you built perl with no threading support? It's certainly a 5%-15% win.
