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Re:PHP Performance Benchmarks by ihsw on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @09:05PM (#4667070)
Database access latency will always trump any language design issues, except in extreme cases. This article does make some of those cases obvious, especially since they are easily-overlooked programming mistakes.
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Re:PHP Performance Benchmarks by ludovicurbain on Thursday October 18, 2012 @03:03AM (#4667752)
Database access latency will always be an important factor of _latency_ .

That doesn't prevent anyone from coding stuff that requires 20 times less application servers while using the same amount of database (+caching) servers.

The very idea that because the DB call takes a while to complete, we can waste even more CPU cycles is a complete misunderstanding of real world use cases.

But then, the very use of PHP means that you don't give a shit about execution time or server costs at all.

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