As opposed to Jason I generally feel safer drawing conclusions based on the
assumption that Microsoft is in fact "quite that dumb" until proven
otherwise.
So my money would say that ASP is _not_ compiled to an executable state and
cached in memory.
Evidence? Read some documentation on how to improve ASP performance. Take
special note of statements such as:
"Avoid using comments in ASP code."
"Avoid using uneccessary server-side #include directives to include
constants."
"Group multiple Response.Write statements, and delimit them with one set of
<%%> delimiters."
"Use only one scripting language per page."
These are factors that are only likely to slow down a compiler, not an
interpreter. If ASP was only compiled once for each application start-up
then these performance tips would make no sense.
Furthermore, if ASP was compiled all the way to native code and run in
process then it's performance would almost certainly outstrip that of JSP
comfortably (as jsp must always be interpretted from byte code). However my
experience shows that JSP is around 50% faster than ASP for identical
(functionally) scripts. Of course the much nicer tiered architectures that
you can easily put together with JSP/EJB increases performance by another
magnitude altogether.
Haven't seen ASP3 running on IIS5 yet, but MS better hope it's foundations
aren't "quite that dumb".
Dave Elliot
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> From: Jason Boehle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Subject: Re: ASP vs JSP
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>
> > ASP scripts get interpretted everytime a user requests the
> .asp page.
>
> Ummm, do you really think the people developing the ASP
> engine at MS are
> quite that dumb? A compiled ASP page is cached in memory,
> and I'm sure
> THAT is why speed is comparable to JSP.
>
> Jason Boehle
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