X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0B211F6924 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:04:08 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24603-08 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:04:06 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from floppy.pyrenet.fr (floppy.pyrenet.fr [194.116.145.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D7411F6928 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:04:05 -0400 (AST) Received: by floppy.pyrenet.fr (Postfix, from userid 106) id 05E8330925; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:04:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: Chris Browne X-Newsgroups: pgsql.performance Subject: Re: Decide between Postgresql and Mysql (help of Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:22:48 -0500 Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Lines: 35 Message-ID: <60acb7rgnr.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com> References: <1143559902.1241.16.camel@servidor> <1143575445.3625.87.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> <200603291901.59320.listsubscriptions@oghma.on.ca> <442B4138.8030207@modgraph-usa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:N/uucN30HhmrOd/NRVDRn5Lr2Ls= To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.309 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.309] X-Spam-Score: 0.309 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/627 X-Sequence-Number: 18064 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?" ;-) -- (format nil "~S@~S" "cbbrowne" "acm.org") http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/lisp.html "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain