On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:46:19 -0800 (PST), "C.
(http://symcbean.blogspot.com/)" <colin.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>One of the most convincing arguments I've seen for PHP is the stats at
>http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
So, in practise, what are the usual bottlenecks for PHP web apps?
Access to the DB? Hard-disk? CPU? Network?
> I'd also be looking at Ants.
You mean
www.ants.com ?
>Yes, I'd expect well crafted C (or even C++) to beat the socks off
>PHP, but who has got that amount of time to spend writing functional,
>secure code?
Besides, it'd be stupid to write very fast C code... but have the CPU
spend 99% of its time idle, waiting for bytes to travel in and out of
the network :-)