[thelist] CGI cart vs PHP cart

Jacob Stetser icongarden at icongarden.com
Thu Oct 26 05:34:41 CDT 2000


I'll see if I can dig them up. I saw them referenced on (surprise, surprise) the PHP lists at php.net.

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On Wednesday, October 25, 2000, at 08:54 PM, Eduardo Dominguez wrote:

> what figures ? :) 
>  
> I always wanted to see a benchmark comparing php, perl and asp... 
>  
> greets 
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jacob Stetser" <icongarden at icongarden.com> 
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 7:13 PM 
> Subject: RE: [thelist] CGI cart vs PHP cart 
>  
>  
> > Well, yes and no.. you can run PHP as a CGI that interprets your scripts 
> (same as most perl implementations) but most hosts run it as an apache 
> module, thereby putting it on the same level as ASP, CF and the like. 
> > 
> > PHP as an Apache module on Linux is pretty darn fast, beating out CGI perl 
> and ASP on IIS4/5, if the figures I've seen are correct. 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, October 25, 2000, at 12:06 PM, Scott Dexter wrote: 
> > 
> > > > this from scratch. So the question is : Which is better(and 
> > > > why) CGI or PHP? 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > by the by, php *is* CGI (Common Gateway Interface), just all 
> fancy-schmancy 
> > > implementation of it. The difference is where CGI is the process of the 
> web 
> > > server executing a process (any executable program, written in any 
> language) 
> > > and communicating with it through stdin and stdout (i.e. the command 
> line 
> > > and print statements, respectively), php, ASP, CF and the like bring the 
> > > execution closer to the web server process (by gettin all up in the web 
> > > server's business), taking out some of the overhead of CGI (among other 
> > > stuff, but I'm waving my hands a little here). 
> > > 
> > > I presume that when you say CGI, you're tweaking perl scripts? php, from 
> > > what I've seen of it, shouldn't be that much of a stretch, but I must 
> admit 
> > > I've not seen much php other than what comes up on the list, but I think 
> its 
> > > a fair sampling.... 
> > > 
> > > (I just wanted to point out the CGI thing) 
> > > sgd 
> > > 
> > 
> > > 
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