LAMP vs. LAMP Rematch
Two very popular and widely used languages for building dynamic web sites are Perl and PHP. They make up two thirds of the "P" in the Linux Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python (LAMP) stack. How does their performance, using mod_perl and mod_php, compare for everyday web programming? I attempted to find out.
New in the rematch
In the rematch, I updated the Perl HTML code based on suggestions from comments to the orignal article. It should create a more accurate comparison with PHP. Though the main goal is to compare the performance of mod_perl and mod_php, I added a TCL CGI program to compare against Perl CGI. Finally, the hardware used for testing was significantly faster.
The machine
My new test bed was a DELL PowerEdge 2850 server with the following specifications and software:
3.2 Ghz Intel Xeon
4G RAM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Apache 2.0.46
MySQL 3.23.58
Perl 5.8.0
PHP 4.3.2
TCL 8.3.5
This system is a monster compared to the 700 Mhz server from the original test. I expected the results to reflect it.
The method
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