Python vs. PHP
Elf Sternberg
elf at halcyon.com
Mon Apr 23 00:07:23 EDT 2001
In article <mailman.987816031.15651.python-list at python.org>
William Park <parkw at better.net> writes:
>On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:31:36PM -0500, ll wrote:
>> How does Python stack up against PHP in terms of performance? PHP runs
>> as a module in Apache, I think, whereas Python runs in a seperate
>> process. What kind of overhead is there in starting up the VM for each
>> page hit? How well does it scale?
>Python is stand-alone general script language, much like Perl. Whereas
>PHP is designed to integrate into HTML file as another <...> syntax, so
>it has very tight interface with SQL database and Apache, naturally.
>But, Python and PHP are very different beast.
In a sense, true, but only in a sense. Webware makes Python
very much like PHP in the sense that it allows for PSP (Python Server
Pages) with persistance and all the rest. Used with the mod_webware
extension that comes with the latest version, its performance is
comparable to PHP, it has all of the capabilities of PHP, and it's in
Python, language that in just a month has convinced me to give up on
Perl and Java exept where deemed essential by the employer-- which sadly
is all too often.
Elf
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