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For a web application PHP is likely much faster, because it does templating in a sane manner, while you need huge frameworks for Python.
by khgrfas 2y ago
For a web application PHP is likely much faster, because it does templating in a sane manner, while you need huge frameworks for Python.
- mg 2y agoI think you still need to do the templating in PHP, because you usually want to escape html chars. And because you want to seperate code and layout. Having "Hello <?=$name?>" in the template is usually not what you want. It is also harder to read than "Hello {NAME}". Let's test templating in Python and PHP! template.py: def main(): t = 'Number {NR} is cool' i = 10_000_000 r = 0 while i>0: x = t.replace('{NR}', str(i)) r += len(x) i = i - 1 print(r) main() template.php: <?php $t = 'Number {NR} is cool'; $i = 10_000_000; $r = 0; while ($i>0) { $x = str_replace('{NR}', $i, $t); $r += strlen($x); $i = $i - 1; } print($r); Results: time python3 template.py 218888897 real 0m2.854s time php template.php 218888897 real 0m0.994s time pypy3 template.py 218888897 real 0m0.795s So for this use case, PHP is 3x faster than CPython and PyPy is 20% faster than PHP.