From: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Decide between Postgresql and Mysql (help of
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:22:48 -0500
Message-ID: <60acb7rgnr.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com> (raw)
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cjames@modgraph-usa.com ("Craig A. James") writes:
> Gorshkov wrote:
>> /flame on
>> if you were *that* worried about performance, you wouldn't be using
>> PHP or *any* interperted language
>> /flame off
>> sorry - couldn't resist it :-)
>
> I hope this was just a joke. You should be sure to clarify - there
> might be some newbie out there who thinks you are seriously
> suggesting coding major web sites in some old-fashioned compiled
> language.
Actually, this seems not so bad a point...
If people are so interested in micro-managing certain bits of how
performance works, then it seems an excellent question to ask why NOT
write all the CGIs in C.
After all, CGI in C *won't* suffer from the performance troubles
associated with repetitively loading in Perl/PHP frameworks (which is
why things like FastCGI, mod_perl, and such came about), and you can
get a fair level of assurance that the compiled C won't be the
performance bottleneck.
And yes, it does become natural to ask "why not write CGIs in ASM?"
;-)
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