As atcroft posited, I would also have to believe that the culprit is Perl being run as a CGI application rather than loaded as a module in the webserver. PHP isn't necessarily faster than Perl. There have been numerous comparisons on this subject, I would Google for Perl vs PHP or search on slashdot for language comparisons.

When Perl is *NOT* run as a webserver module, every page call requires that a new Perl interpreter is spawned. This quickly becomes very expensive, both in terms of memory and CPU utilization. When Perl is run as a webserver module, one instance of the interpreter is started with the webserver and multiple threads of execution are used. The big advantage of this is that each page/script is cached in memory (in theory forever, but memory constraints might not allow for this), the memory caching allows existing scripts to be run very quickly. The scripts never need be recompiled for every page view (as they might be with a CGI application).

Hope this helps.

jeremiah



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In reply to Re: PHP is better than perl and what can i do to run perl faster? by peschkaj
in thread PHP is better than perl and what can i do to run perl faster? by eial

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