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

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
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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