PHP and CPU resources

[Rich]

Not considering any database usage, is PHP considered to be less, about the same, or more demanding of processing resources compared to Perl/CGI? Assume the same functionality is being implemented in the most efficient manner for each language.

Don't need in-depth analysis but I'm wondering if there is a difference, whether it is significant enough to make this a reason to seriously consider PHP.

Thanks


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[Terra]

PHP has a much lower overhead than Perl/CGI scripts, due to startup/teardown of perl/compile/execute/die...

But there is a bad side to PHP, only 1 that I've seen thus far... I cannot switch uid/gid with suEXEC like I can do for external CGI scripts...

e.g.
test.pl == runs as user/xdomain
test.php == runs as apache/apache (same as webserver)

Now - I have gotten around that limitation with PHP3 (burnt **many** brain cells with this one), but it will only be utilized for FQuest's internal use with the CNC modules, where uid/gid switching is a must-have requirement... Unfortunately the switching of PHP's uid/gid has it's own high overhead, but a tad less than Perl/CGI combination...

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