Hallo, Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Jack hat gesagt: // Jack wrote: > > > Le 20 mars 08 à 15:43, Frank Barknecht a écrit : > > >I don't know of an external which adds PHP support inside of Pd. If > > >you are talking about which programming language to choose outside of > > >Pd: I'd choose whatever you feel most comfortable with. Of course one > > >could debate which language is the "better" language, Lua or PHP, but > > >I think, this would be very off-topic here. > > Of course, I selected that with which I am more at ease. :) > > In fact, i just want to know if Lua is as at ease as PHP with > > Internet, string operation and MySQL. > > Lua is well implemented in PD, so i think it's not very off-topic here ! > > Yeah, I meant the more general discussion if Lua altogether is > "better" than PHP would be off-topic. Until PHP is available in Pd, > the choice between Lua and PHP inside of Pd is easy.
Oh, and if you're only interested in speed: The Language Shootout shows Lua as generally being roughly twice as fast and memory friendly than PHP in most cases: http://tinyurl.com/ypgvnf Lua is 13 times slower than C++, PHP is 23 times slower. (Tcl there is 44 times slower ...) Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
