m3rajk — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:10:24 +0000

mairving is right. a result of the overhead is that he php/nix will always be faster when everything else is the same, just due to the os. and there's some others. i know one person personally tha tknows both, he prefers php because the parser is more optimal, meaning that it actually is more efficient. supposivley the difference is rather small, but that when you have a server that's being taxed, you'll see it.

consider it this way: asp has a small set number of developers working 9-5 to improve it. php has an unlimited number of developers working 24/7 to keep it completely secure, increase the efficiency etc etc.

given that, and given that zend is constantly looking for ways to make it better, which is more likely to be a faster, more powerful scripting lang?

mairving — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:07:51 +0000

I would say that it is your imagination also. A lot of things can greatly effect forum speed, how many sites are hosted on the server, how many posts are in the forum database, the amount of RAM, etc. As a general rule, I have found that PHP/MySQL/Apache runs faster than ASP/SQL Server/IIs Servers on equal hardware. The reason is that it takes more muscle to drive SQL Server/IIs since there is more sytem overhead from running Windows Server & SQL Server, than there is from running a 'nix server/MySQL.

Then again it is very difficult to measure performance across different platforms like this. From my own (biased) experience of running both platforms, I would say that the 'nix combo is faster and certainly more stable.

Suzanne — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:54:36 +0000

More specifically, you'd have to look at server usage, type of server, memory, et cetera, number of people, size of the database, connection to the web, et cetera.

Suzanne — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:53:45 +0000

It's your imagination.