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Re:How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust? by pjmlp on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:43PM (#21109799)
The ones that offered IIS instead of ASP via Apache surely did, depending on the price plan.
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Re:How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust? by wvenable on Sunday September 29, 2019 @08:41PM (#21110760)
There is no ASP via Apache. ASP was only ever hosted on IIS and given the huge security implications of running custom binaries on IIS in a shared environment, it almost wasn't ever done.

I started doing ASP development before my web host suggested it was cheaper and easier to do PHP. They had both Linux and Windows shared hosting at the time.

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Re:How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust? by pjmlp on Monday September 30, 2019 @01:35AM (#21112032)
Sure there was one

http://www.apache-asp.org/faq.html

I was only wrong regarding the language, it made use of Perl instead.

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Re:How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust? by wvenable on Monday September 30, 2019 @02:35AM (#21112295)
One esoteric library that was not mainstream. It's completely unrelated (and utterly incompatible) to Microsoft's ASP. I'm not even sure why you'd bother to bring it up -- what point does this make?
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Re:How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust? by pjmlp on Monday September 30, 2019 @03:45AM (#21112676)
That PHP only got where it is today because of cheap hosting, down to the level of free beer, nothing more.
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Re:How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust? by wvenable on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:35AM (#21116447)
That doesn't explain how it beat a number of other technologies at the time -- including well established ones, like Perl.
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Re:How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust? by pjmlp on Monday September 30, 2019 @05:40PM (#21119927)
Sure it does, cheap hosting. Many ISP only offered Perl with mod_perl, or telnet/cgi access, in the more expensive variants.

The cheapest of them all was PHP with files being dumped via FTP upload.

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