Performance project for the SigEx Foundry

[pablo at sigex.com]

On Feb 22, 8:40 pm, pierre_marie_dur... at yahoo.fr wrote:
> On Feb 21, 1:15 pm, p... at sigex.com wrote:
>
> > have been testing performances of different scripting languages
> > fordatabase access, text processing and client application data
> > transfer. So far, I am getting better performance from PHP, but I
> > don't have any hard data to back it up compared to others.
>
> > This is a large project for theSigExFoundryand it involves hundreds
> > of servers. I am looking for articles/studies/benchmarks on the
> > subject.
>
> > Thank you,
>
> > Pablo
> > Server Side Developer
> > Student for theSigExFoundry,
> > bySigExVentures
>
> Hi Pablo,
>
> It's a good question. You want to really understand what you are doing
> this benchmark for. In my opinion, you should go for the language that
> fits your needs and focus on performance optimization for that
> language. I would be more inclined to go with PHP, but that's a
> personal choice. I'm sure you can search performance for these
> languages and come up with lots of ressources on the web.
>
> Pierre-Marie Durand

Pierre-Marie,

Thanks for the feedback. You are right, for now, I am sticking to PHP,
but I would like to read more about this subject. Bearophile's link is
a good start. Thanks,

Pablo
Server Side Developer
Student for the SigEx Foundry,
SigEx Ventures