Re: highscalability.com report
demerphq <[email protected]>
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On 4 April 2012 09:31, William A. Rowe Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Not certainly. We did that and saw almost no difference. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"