[PD] Why use Lua instead of PHP in my case ?

[Andrew Turley]

I think the latency involved in writing data to and from the database
will probably prove a much larger bottleneck than the speed of the
language that you use, at least if you're trying to read the web pages
and use the data in Pd in real-time.

andy

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
>  > Hallo,
>  > Jack hat gesagt: // Jack wrote:
>  >
>  > > Le 20 mars 08 à 15:43, Frank Barknecht a écrit :
>  > > >I don't know of an external which adds PHP support inside of Pd. If
>  > > >you are talking about which programming language to choose outside of
>  > > >Pd: I'd choose whatever you feel most comfortable with. Of course one
>  > > >could debate which language is the "better" language, Lua or PHP, but
>  > > >I think, this would be very off-topic here.
>  > > Of course, I selected that with which I am more at ease. :)
>  > > In fact, i just want to know if Lua is as at ease as PHP with
>  > > Internet, string operation and MySQL.
>  > > Lua is well implemented in PD, so i think it's not very off-topic here !
>  >
>  > Yeah, I meant the more general discussion if Lua altogether is
>  > "better" than PHP would be off-topic. Until PHP is available in Pd,
>  > the choice between Lua and PHP inside of Pd is easy.
>
>  Oh, and if you're only interested in speed: The Language Shootout
>  shows Lua as generally being roughly twice as fast and memory friendly
>  than PHP in most cases: http://tinyurl.com/ypgvnf
>
>  Lua is 13 times slower than C++, PHP is 23 times slower. (Tcl there is
>  44 times slower ...)
>
>
>
>  Ciao
>  --
>   Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__
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