Posted by Paul.Lee.1971 on 06/29/07 22:34

On 29 Jun, 09:49, Andrew Hutchings <i...@a-wing.co.uk> wrote:
> Paul.Lee.1971 wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm designing an application that will allow users to interrogate a
> > Mysql database, using some form of regex. The database will be fairly
> > big, and I'm wondering whether using pre-compiled C++ cgi or php will
> > be faster?
>
> Pre-compiled C++ will be a lot faster, especially if there is
> post-processing involved and pre-compiled PHP, and much much faster than
> un-compiled PHP. But in general it will be much quicker to code in PHP.
>
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Thanks everyone, I really appreciate your advice. It looks like C++
will be faster, but looking at the simply examples (on Informit.com)
it seems to add unnecessary complexity. Anyway, thanks again

Paul
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