Posted by Mark Space on 11/16/07 21:31

NC wrote:

> ...on Friday we launched a platform rearchitecture based on
> loose-coupling, web standards, and a move from JSP (via
> Tomcat) to PHP. The website doesn't look much different, but
> hopefully we can now stop being a byword for unacceptably
> poky site performance.
>
> http://troutgirl.wordpress.com/2004/06/29/friendster-goes-php/

" This is a funny result. I am my self a PHP enthusiast, but in the
journal “ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 31 Issue
3″ there was an article called “A performance comparison of dynamic Web
technologies” where Perl, Java server technolgy (also tomcat) and Perl
was benchmarked in a labratory environment. It was concluded that
Serverside Java outpreformed PHP and Perl by a factor 8. "

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