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Comment on Benchmarking BLOB vs Filesystem for image storage by Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:19:25 +0000

I only recently got into web-based development using MySQL. I'm great at everything PHP and MySQL except how to best develop photo galleries for my clients. To date, I have implemented 7 custom galleries and they're all different.
I've been trying to find some information on BLOB vs File System performance, lately, and I've been coming up dry.
Most people seem to talk about the "age-old debate" but nobody comments on the speed.
I'm so glad you've cleared this one up for me! Although, could I trouble you for a more detailed write-up?
I am very interested in the finer details of why file system out-performs BLOB.

Comment on Speed test: PHP vs Perl vs Python vs Go vs C by Php

Php — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:08:07 +0000

The biggest advantage of PHP over Perl is that PHP was designed for scripting for the web, while Perl was designed to do a lot more. Because of this, Perl can get very complicated. The flexibility / complexity of Perl can make it difficult for developers of varying skill levels to collaborate. PHP has a less-confusing and stricter format without losing flexibility. PHP is also easier to integrate into existing HTML than Perl. In large part, PHP has all the 'good' functionality of Perl – constructs, syntax, et cetera – without making it as complicated as Perl can be. Yet PHP's command-line interpreter (CLI) is powerful enough to perform high-level tasks much in the same way Perl has been traditionally employed. Perl is a very tried and true language, and has stood its ground since the 1980's, but PHP has matured and evolved quickly, and continues to make fantastic progress.

Comment on Speed test: PHP vs Perl vs Python vs Go vs C by hamish

hamish — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:22:03 +0000

Hi Wilsa,
This was a real world test. How about backing up your 'theories' with some practical tests of your own before spouting out "wildy inaccurate" crap.

Comment on Speed test: PHP vs Perl vs Python vs Go vs C by Wilsa S

Wilsa S — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:52:23 +0000

@PHP Programmer:
Actually PHP being 8 times slower than C is wildly inaccurate, probably because this benchmark is heavily weighted toward I/O, which will blur the speed differences between languages. As far as the language goes, you can expect that C would be 50 – 80 times faster than an interpreter like PHP or Python.

Comment on Speed test: PHP vs Perl vs Python vs Go vs C by PHP Programmer

PHP Programmer — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:07:27 +0000

Very enlightening test. I would have thought C would win out, however for PHP to be 8 times slower is not encouraging.

Comment on Speed test: PHP vs Perl vs Python vs Go vs C by hamish

hamish — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:24:40 +0000

Sure, why don't you run your own trials and post the results.

And remember people, I'm talking about command line scripts here.

Can't people read anymore or something?

Comment on Speed test: PHP vs Perl vs Python vs Go vs C by Jpablon

Jpablon — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:45:56 +0000

Phyton is not faster as Php, you are wrong. Maybe you have a bad compiled php version or some bad module.

Comment on How to setup hobbit, including MySQL graphs by hamish

hamish — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:05:52 +0000

Yeah it really annoyed me when they renamed…. my server is 'hobbit' and my clients are 'xymon' arghh!!

Comment on How to setup hobbit, including MySQL graphs by Kianouch

Kianouch — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:29:28 +0000

Thanks, everything seems to be working quite well. (I had to rename a few "hobbitclient" to "xymonclient" though)

Comment on Speed test: PHP vs Perl vs Python vs Go vs C by Alex Libman

Alex Libman — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:37:42 +0000

There must be some per-process overhead with your Python binary that doesn't exist with the Perl one… This overhead, which happens only once per script execution, is hardly significant unless you run a script many times per second. Start-up time aside, Python is generally a bit faster than Perl.