At 10:41 morn 8/29/02 +0000, Amol wrote:
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 Philip S Tellis wrote :
AFAIK, PHP is nowhere near as fast as C (and friends), LISP, Perl, Ruby and Python.
Philip :), give me something authoritative to believe you. And besides that my mail wasn't even about what is fast!
It is been bench-marked (and generally accepted) that C, Lisp, Ocaml are (much) faster than PHP. C compiles to native binary. Lisp compiles to native binary. As far as I know PHP is just a scripting language.
regards, quasi