Re: [WebMacro-user] Performance of WM

[Lane S. <la...@op...>]

Marc Palmer wrote:

> Dominik wrote:
>
>> Hy,
>> i searched the wiki but didn't find any information about the 
>> performance of
>> webmacro. How is it compared to a plain-output (via println()) 
>> servlet? And,
>> perhaps somebody knows, how is it compared to a php script with a
>> template-engine like smarty or other.
>
>
> I don't believe we have any stats but:

not true. run ant test and then look at the working directory :).

>
> 1. println() - will be faster but probably only for trivial cases 
> unless you write some really complicated println() code, because WM 
> has lots of caching and so on and offers much more functionality so 
> you can't really compare this.
>
> 2. PHP - having used PHP I am pretty sure it will be quite a bit 
> slower, as PHP as I understand it is always interpreted, and Java code 
> is typically running with JIT compilation. The difference between WM 
> and PHP may be less if the PHP templating caches an abstract syntax 
> tree of the template, but I'm not sure they do. It would be very ugly 
> writing something like that in PHP...
>
> PHP is really a "quick fix" language, i.e. for hacking sites together 
> quickly or using existing "Portal" tools like PHP Nuke. Serious things 
> with scalability and performance considerations are much better done 
> in Java, but take a bit longer to develop.

I disagree with this last paragraph. php used properly and with its 
object-oriented support can create superlative applications which are 
"rendering (DHTML, CSS, JS) and database intensive". In other words, 90% 
of the everyday web applications. If you are looking to create a 
content-centric application (articles, feeds, users, shopping, calendar 
and more), you absolutely must run to Mambo. I consider myself an 
average web developer but with Mambo, I created something that everyday 
gains users at the rate of 20-30 per day for a radio station in town ( 
htttp://www.mighty1090.com ). In short, for content-driven applications 
and CMS in general, do not overlook Mambo.

I don't think in my 25 years of experience I have ever seen such a 
promising technology as Java been so mismanged by its owner leading some 
to call Java the Cobol of our generation.

-Lane

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