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Re: Perl or PHP?

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On 28-12-2013 23:13, BartC wrote:
> "Luuk" <luuk@invalid.lan> wrote in message
> news:98a3pa-0sq.ln1@luuk.invalid.lan...
>> On 28-12-2013 17:11, Victor Porton wrote:
>
>>> Could you disclose the content of files test.pl and test.php?
>>>
>>>> But the question of course is, what are your comparing?
>>>>
>>>> ;-)
>>>
>>
>>   1 #!/usr/bin/perl
>>   2
>>   3 for ($count = 1000; $count >= 1; $count--) {
>>   4                 print "$count ";
>>   5                  }
>>
>>
>> and
>>
>>   1 #!/usr/bin/php
>>   2
>>   3 <?php
>>   4 for ($f=1000; $f>=1; $f--)
>>   5         echo "$f ";
>
> So you're mainly testing I/O rather than the language: which depends on the
> commands that are used for output in the language, how they are
> implemented,
> how the console is driven, the console implementation code, the kind of
> display, etc.
>
> Changing your tests a little so that the loops increment a variable, and
> putting the output at the end, makes PHP twice as fast as Perl (on the same
> setup which had PHP seven times slower than Perl using your tests.) Eg:
>
> $a=0;
> for ($count = 10000000; $count >= 1; $count--) {
>                 $a=$a+1;
> etc.
>
> Still a lousy benchmark, but at least it avoids I/O which is highly
> misleading.
>
>

thats why i said:
what are your comparing?

;-)

The starting point of this thread was wrong.

OP should have investigated the strong, an weak points of both choices, 
in stead of yust focussing on 'performance'

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Perl or PHP? Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-12-28 17:49 +0200
  Re: Perl or PHP? Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-12-28 17:51 +0200
  Re: Perl or PHP? Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-12-28 17:03 +0100
    Re: Perl or PHP? Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-12-28 18:11 +0200
      Re: Perl or PHP? Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-12-28 17:18 +0100
        Re: Perl or PHP? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-12-28 22:13 +0000
          Re: Perl or PHP? Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-12-29 17:29 +0100
  Re: Perl or PHP? Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-12-28 20:40 +0200
    Re: Perl or PHP? Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2013-12-28 12:26 -0800

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