PHP speed at command console

[Anon]

How does php compare to perl when running from the command console. I am looking at making a web spider and I know php but not perl well.

thanks

[lucianoes]

I don't know Perl either, but I know PHP is fast enough. If you know PHP, why not just use it?

Look for the cURL functions.

    Luciano ES
    Santos, SP - Brasil

[Anon]

The bottleneck with any project like this will be the internet, not processing on your machine. I'm using command line PHP for exactly this kind of thing (monitoring 400 sites for updates). Works fine. Easier than perl, I reckon.