Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] Perl and PHP

["Emmanuel. M. Decarie" <emm@cam.org>]

Thanks Chis for your information.

And good luck for your new job.

Cheers

-Emmanuel

À (At) 10:30 -0500 7/01/00, Chris Nandor écrivait (wrote) :
>At 09.03 -0500 1999.12.31, Emmanuel. M. Decarie wrote:
>>If  you know already Perl, is there any advantages to use PHP instead
>>of Perl? Is PHP more efficient at CGIs than Perl?
>
>It is not comparably to CGIs.  That is comparing apples and oranges.  It is
>comparable only to persistent Perl process, such as in mod_perl, or parsed
>HTML stuff, like PerlScript or whatever.  So that said ...
>
>PHP is lightweight compared to Perl, I understand, so it can be faster.  It
>also has database access built-in, so you don't need to load in DBI (which
>doesn't matter to me).  I doubt that it is more efficient in speed, though
>it is probably more efficient in memory use (mod_perl takes a good few MB
>per program instance).  I am not sure how much PHP uses, but I understand
>it is significantly less.  I could be misinformed.
>
>If you have enough RAM to handle your mod_perl (or whatever you are using
>Perl with) needs, then there is little reason to use PHP, unless you just
>happen to like the language more (which is probably unlikely, since it is
>basically a less featureful Perl).
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