From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Oct 28 13:51:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.futuredesigns.net (unknown [216.91.66.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99D6A37B479 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 13:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 7070 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2000 20:51:05 -0000 Received: from delta.futuredesigns.net (HELO SUN.fdhosting.com) (@216.91.66.252) by 216.91.66.2 with SMTP; 28 Oct 2000 20:51:05 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001028164421.03021200@mail.futuredesigns.net> X-Sender: sturdee@mail.futuredesigns.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:51:50 -0400 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Mike Subject: OT: Program Speed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry for the off topic question, but I'm not quite sure where else to find unbiased opinions on this. We currently have a cgi program, written in C, that is ran about 500,000+ times a day. Each time it is run, it reads from reads and writes to 2-5 flat text files. I am in the process of rewriting this program so to add more features and what not. I am wondering if it would be faster / more efficient if it were to use MySQL instead of flat text files (over 500,000 accesses daily) in the C version of the program, or would PHP or a combination of PHP/MySQL be faster? Any thoughts/ideas, or a reference as to where I could find such information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message