Yes. No.

It's too broad a question. What kind of hardware do you have? What kind of network connection do you have? What kind of program are you running? What kind of "efficient" do you mean? Do you have a database? On the same machine, on a different machine? What kind of accesses are you likely to receive? Do you have more CPU time to burn than available memory? Is your system IO bound or network bound or processor bound?

There are a thousand variables. We won't even get into the version of Perl, mod_perl, any performance tweaks you might get into, whether or not you have the Zend optimizer or not.

You can write bad and inefficient code in any language. You can write good code in almost any language. Pick the language that will cause your programmers the least grief, because you will have to change things. Then, if it's not fast enough, either fix it, or figure out which parts you can rewrite in a faster language. If absolutely necessary.

In reply to Re: Which language parses faster? PHP or Mod_Perl? by chromatic
in thread Which language parses faster? PHP or Mod_Perl? by bladx

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