On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Les, while I understand where you're coming from, I don't quite agree > > with you. A programming language doesn't make security mistakes, the > coder > > does :) > > I didn't mean the language is going to cause the problem. I meant that > coding mistakes are inevitable when you start from scratch and take > years to find and fix - a headstart those other frameworks already have. > > > What I'm looking for, is which programming language will be best, > > i.e. fastest. My OS of choice would be CentOS, but even then that won't > make > > a difference either. > > That's all almost irrelevant. Unless you make horrible coding mistakes, > nothing you do within the programming language will take significant > time compared to reading/writing the config files and database activity. > > > I can do most of this in PHP, but I do think PHP is a bit slow for this, > > being a scripting language, and not a compiled language. > > Measure what's really happening. > > > LDAP can / would but be one component of the whole thing, and I'm not > very > > fond of JAVA, since it's rather slow. Ideally I need something which > could > > interact with the OS layer directly > > Java is only slow when you have to start a new JVM. I'd expect this to > be run under tomcat or similar web container where the JVM would always > be running. Again, measure a few things to get the idea. A tomcat app > is easy enough to test - there are a few packaged ones to get the idea. > As far as talking to the OS goes, all languages have ways to do that. > Perl is probably the closest-to-native for most things - and has > modules with embedded C-library access for anything else you might > need. But java has built-in remote execution if you want to make this > work on more than one machine. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Well, my experience with JAVA, JS & JSP (I know they're all different) has been that it's slow on the user's end of view. I have some clients with JBOSS / Tomcat, and while it's powerful, it also takes up a lot of resources. Ideally, whatever I use needs to be quick, and low on resources. cPanel, for one, needs a minimum of 512MB RAM to function properly. And while hardware is cheap these days, 512MB is still a lot. Other control panels will work hapily with 256, or perhaps even 128MB RAM. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090615/5115c6fa/attachment-0005.html>