Re: Which scales better? J2EE, PHP, or CGIDEV2?

[Henrik RÃtzou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

when you first run a stateless environment hot it performs very well ;-)

Just try "the medicine" if the smallest 515 you can by for money - a 1MB
memory machine with one disk

http://85.24.84.163:1550/pextcgi/pxsession.pgm

/henrik

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Paul Tuohy <tuohyp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> I think language efficiency comes well down the list after the hardware
> - and I apologize if that was not clear from the article.
>
> It does have an affect but nowhere near the affect it used to have.
> Henrik quoted the solution serving 400 web (companies) users - 10 jobs -
> running on a 520 (I am assuming RPG). I also get through a fairly heavy
> workload on my little 620. But I wonder what kind of response we would
> be getting running the same software on an old B20 (if it were possible)?
>
> Performance is of course a consideration. And language can have a large
> part to play in that. But I think the application would really dictate
> how performance may be affected by the language - e.g. Java gives you
> multi threading, RPG gives you better database access, PHP gives you
> better session handling etc. etc. - as to which of these is most
> important depends on the application.
>
> Language is about the right tool for the job. And the most important
> point about that is you have to know the language. No point saying Java
> is the right language if you can't program in Java.
>
> Regards
>
> Paul Tuohy
> ComCon
> www.comconadvisor.com
> www.systemideveloper.com
>
>
>
>
>
> Nathan Andelin wrote:
>  >> From: Kevin Schroeder
> > > Not correct, IMHO.  "Scalability" has virtually nothing to do with the
> > > language.
> >
> >
> > If that's the case, then why did Facebook transform their PHP scripts to
> C, and
> > compile it?  It seems to me that runtime efficiency (performance) is the
> first
> > key to scalability.  If your applications require less CPU, then CPU is
> less
> > likely to be a bottleneck.  The box will handle more work.
> >
> > But is there more to scalability, than language efficiency?
> >
> > -Nathan
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