[UPHPU] Rails vs PHP

[Walt Haas]

IIRC I said that PHP, running as an Apache module, was faster than a
language that required Apache to start a new fork for the interpreter.
Python and Perl also run as Apache modules so they get the same
advantage.  There is now a new mod_ruby that confers that advantage on
Ruby. http://www.modruby.net/

I'm a little suspicious of the FastCGI approach because it seems to me
to depend heavily on cleaning up after application execution.  The only
sure way I know to do this is to restart the interpreter with an empty
symbol table, so FastCGI doesn't really give you any enhancement over
mod_p*.

Here's some good advice on improving PHP performance:

 http://blogs.phparch.com/mt/?p=132

 http://phplens.com/lens/php-book/optimizing-debugging-php.php

 http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/vasiliev-php-dcn.html

 http://omniti.com/~george/talks/

 http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-php-fastapps1/

 http://atomized.org/2005/04/php-performance-best-practices/

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/interesting-php-performance-related-articles-roundup.html

I suspect that going through your system with a fine tooth comb tuning
everything according to those tips will make it faster than an
equivalent untuned system in some other language :-)

-- Walt


On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 13:59 -0700, Joshua Simpson wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/26/07, Walt Haas <haas at xmission.com> wrote:
>         The first link reports an attempt to make an objective
>         comparison of
>         performance among Symfony(PHP), Ruby on Rails and
>         Django(Python).  From
>         the description of the test and the comments following it
>         appears that
>         the comparison didn't have the services of someone experienced
>         in each
>         platform to configure and tune it, so the results are hard to
>         interpret.
>         I'm not surprised, it's really hard to do a good objective
>         apples-to-apples comparison of something that complicated.
> 
> Alright, so you posited  earlier that one of the clear advantages of
> PHP is speed (bulls***).  I fail to see how you reciting what has been
> said amongst this article refutes my claims that mod_php and/or PHP is
> not substantially faster than Python.  I'm just waiting for data from
> you where PHP, indeed, beats out Python, so I can pull Psyco out and
> blow you away.  That's all. 
> 
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