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

At 08:36 AM 12/24/99 -0600, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>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.

I looked at the Perl sources a few years ago before Zeev and I started
writing the PHP 3 engine.
After a few minutes I erased the sources because they were so bloody cryptic.

Andi 

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