[plug] Perl vs PHP

[Leon Brooks]

Christian wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:37:49PM +0800, Joshua Pierre wrote:
>> But, perl often gets slow and bogged down when there are lots of requests or
>> threads running and php is much faster so if you are doing something
>> intensive with lots of hits or something I reccoment php.

> Do you have any benchmarks to back this up?  I can't imagine any
> significant difference between something mod_perl based and something
> PHP based.

I would, but I would expect wins and losses on both sides rather than a uniform
victory for PHP. I'm presuming that you presume the PERL to be running as a
module rather than CGI, Alpha may not have so presumed.