Re: ASP/PHP vs HTML files

[CaT <cat@zip.com.au>]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:31:31PM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote:
> This is a novice type question, being that I haven't done much research
> on this question. As I understand it, ASP and PHP pages must be read by
> the server software and processed as it is sent to the browser client,
> while HTML is simply transferred as-is. Does the extra processing of
> ASP and PHP pages have any significant effect on the CPU usage of a
> web server?

You're gonna hate this answer but... it depends what's done with the
PHP/ASP. :) It'll always have a greater CPU usage then standard HTML
but how much depends on what you do with it. Complex matrix calculations
transformed into a png will, for example, take more CPU usage then 1+1. :)

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