Posted by Andrew Hutchings on 06/29/07 08:49

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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