Is PHP faster than ASP?

[Anon]

Hi all,

I was just wondering... does anybody know a place where they have tested PHP vs ASP running on IIS?

Maybe somebody has done it already and knows about it?

Any info on this will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance,
Julian

[Anon]

http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/0,12249,2646052,00.html

This is an extreemly biased review, but you it does tell you the speed of things.

Also you can read what people here had to say about the article at:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=1&id=105430&loc=0&thread=105430

[smarlowe]

If all you need is speed, you should be programming in C in the API of your web server. If you need speed, and lots of it, directly programmed server modules are the way to go.

But speed isn't all. If a scripting language can get 90% the speed of a C module in 1/4 the development time, then you can afford more machines to run it on, if you even need them. If it's 1/10th or 1/20th as fast, then the development time for the C module will be worth it.

I've found PHP and ASP to both be as fast as you can get to programming the direct API for a module without actually doing that, and they both work well. ASP's only real downfall is that it's tied to a proprietary OS that seems and I'm not sure of viability over long periods of time (20+ years) of closed source projects.

[raditha]

PHP is a lot faster. period.