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Originally posted by notjoe
PHP is way faster than Perl, even if you have FastCGI running and PHP is a module and isnt forked for each request.
Everytime a CGI is loaded your webserver opens a shell and executed perl -f(?) perlfile.cgi
where as php as a module is all embedded.
You will also need to optimize your database table fields so that your searching takes up a lot less time.
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The only database queries i do is a "does this searchstring exist in the database?" so if i got a hit from
http://www.freegallery.biz/whatever.html, i would check to see if "freegallery.biz" existed in my mysql database. i can't really optimize that anymore. the searchstring field is defined as "UNIQUE index(searchstring)", so it's unique.