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Yes, it is true: Java can run Drupal faster!

Submitted by Khalid on Thu, 2007/06/21 - 21:58

There has always been a running joke in the Drupal community that Dries is secretly working on a Java port of Drupal, using an SVN repository. While it makes for a good occasional laugh, there is some truth to that.

Now, Drupal on Caucho has been benchmarked and found to be 3.5 to 4 X faster than Apache and PHP.

This shows that PHP implemented in Java is faster than Zend's engine as an interpreter. These results are without an op-code cache for PHP though, and that needs to be benchmarked for a more comprehensive comparison.

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Test the Roadsend PHP compiler

Submitted by Arto Bendiken (not verified) on Fri, 2007/06/22 - 09:18.

Somebody should test out the Roadsend native-code compiler for PHP, given that it is now open source (since a couple of months back). That should put Java in its place (Roadsend is written in Scheme) ;-)

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Submitted by Khalid on Mon, 2007/09/17 - 12:01.

Check also Clustered Drupal through Quercus, Terracotta and Ehcache.

See also my previous post on Life imitates humor: Drupal in Java.
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Khalid Baheyeldin

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