Originally Posted by farkedup

If I remember right your system ended up having at least one really large file which you had to process and rehash with like every pageload. This type of environment would in fact be faster as long as the file is relatively small. If you have a large file being opened and processed constantly it'll be slower and only get worse as traffic grows. I know nothing of your revisions and its been a good 6mnths since I've been through your system. As a former perl programmer myself I understand there are MANY things perl can do that far exceed what PHP is capable of. On sites with less content I believe yours is very fast. Most servers don't even have many of the tweaks to make perl run faster... These days everybody has something like zend optimizer to help PHP run faster.

What I do with mine is I actually cache many of the "common queries" into the filesystem. When I was looking over your perl code I was actually shocked with some of the shit you managed to make it do... but I just don't think the market is prepared for something like this. If it was the same price and used PHP you'd probably sell triple simply because the market will not ever really understand WTF perl is.