Comparison of Speed of LiveCode with PHP

[Peter W A Wood]

Geoff

Thanks for your input.

I think you are correct that the memory access comparison isn’t fair. I don’t have time right now but I’ll try to come up with a better comparison. 

I’m not convinced that the file comparison is fair. If LiveCode is appending the data to the file rather than overwriting the existing data then it is at a disadvantage. I’ll look a little deeper into this aspect too, once I get the time.

Regards

Peter

> On 24 Nov 2014, at 23:31, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My PHP is weak, but if the memory access test is a regular array, then
> comparing it to a livecode array is somewhat apples and oranges, since LC
> is really a hash. But on the other hand, there's no way to do a simple
> array in LC, so it's not like you can do better.
> 
> For the file access test, your test is pretty much apples to apples, but it
> would be interesting to compare it to URL access: build the whole string
> and write it out, then read the whole thing in and split it. That wouldn't
> be a fair comparison, but it would be interesting.
> 
> gc
>