Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP3] VBS/Perl/PHP Performance Test From: Andrei Zmievski (andrei <email protected>)
Date: 12/24/99

At 04:23 PM 12/24/99 +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>I think the main reason why Perl is so much faster than ASP & PHP in that
>benchmark is because regular expressions are part of the language syntax.
>Thus the regex's are compiled at compile time. In PHP, although there is a
>regex cache for PCRE regex's there is more of an overhead as they aren't
>embedded as part of the language.

Right, and that's the reason Perl can do a couple more tricks with regex's.

Man, Perl internals scare me. I had to wade through pp_hot.c to figure out
some regex stuff and I swear I'd never seen such convoluted programming before.

-Andrei 

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