Re: highscalability.com report

"William A. Rowe Jr." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-perl
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
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.
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