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Re: Question About Web Site Speed

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jul 13, 2005
• 508 views

cklester wrote:
> Robert Craig wrote:
> > 
> > php is a typical interpreter that's much slower than Euphoria.
> > It couldn't handle the EUforum search for example, without
> > people screaming.
> 
> With an index, it would probably work fine. Or see here:

I do a bit of indexing. For example if you specify the "posted by"
field, I can give you your results almost instantly.

However, there are no limits on the strings you can search for and
quite often it's necessary to actually read every line of
all 70,000 messages (over 100MB). I suspect no one
would try that with pure PHP.
 
> <a
> href="http://www.interspire.com/fastfind/demo.php">http://www.interspire.com/fastfind/demo.php</a>

It looks like you have to run a separate program periodically
to re-index everything. The EUforum search always includes 
the very latest messages. Also, I don't know if they use PHP code
down at the lowest level. CPU-intensive programs will be faster 
with Euphoria. Search is just one example.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com