On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM, John R Piercepierce@hogranch.com wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
What I meant was, PHP talks to PHP script engine, which talks to Apache, which then talks to system commands. - is there a quicker way of doing it?
um, thats somewhat mixed up. user -> browser -> apache -> php that interprets your script -> OS function
with a native compiled language like C++, its user -> browser -> apache -> compiled C++ binary -> OS function
not really -that- different, as theres far more overhead in all the rest of the process than in the actual script or program,unless its doing something very computationally intensive.
also note, PHP is a preloaded module, while your C++ program probably gets forked on every webpage, unless you write it as an apache module... ooops.
Thanx John, I didn't think about it this way :)
But would PHP be able to perform all tasks that PERL / C++ can?