OT: why are LAMP sites slow?

[Tim Daneliuk]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Tim Daneliuk wrote:
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>>THis is why, IMHO, things like SOAP a laughable - RPC is a poor
>>foundation for reliable, durable, and high-performance TP.  It might be
>>fine for sending an order or invoice now and then, but sustained through-
>>put of the sort I think of as "high" performance is likely never going to be
>>accomplished with session-oriented architectures.
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> does 50 gigabytes per day, sustained, count as high performance in your book?
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'Depends.  It is certainly a high-volume application.  But is it
transactional?  Is it online or batch?  Does it have correctness
guarantees and so forth ...   You can ftp 50 gigabytes in one
day with big enough network pipes, but that does not a transactional
system make, for example ...

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