just for fun: it's so GREAT delphi (2006) !!!!!!!!!!!!

hi all,

I want share with you my enthusiasm for delphi, again!

Some days ago I was installing the most famous systems for forum.

They are all in php, so I have used some profiling system.

In a typical system P4-3Ghz PC, I was getting an average 3-4 rendered html pages for second (every page is composed by many queries).

So I have installed a famous opensource cacher-optimizer-compiler of php: now 8 pages for second.

But imagine a highly successfull website with hundreds of online users....

So I have done a test:

1) have buy for ~70Eur a dbexpress high speed driver for mysql5
2) have built a full featured database with tables, key, indexes in one day
3) another day to build a ISAPI by hand using datamodule:
3A) to have high speed I have pooled connections using a threadvar, every IIS thread has one datamodule with opened connection
4) have built the rendered of pages to virtually replicate the famous forums in php

In two days I have build the 80% of the functionalities of a good forum with ranks, statistics, sessions, filters, fulltext search.

Result: same benchmark jump from 8pages sec in php+optimizer to 152 pages for second (18x speedup in same hardware), without consider the smallest use of ram and reliability (0% fail answers, 4-5% failed in PHP).

Thanks to delphi:
1) saved $300 (cost of similar forum minus cost of high speed driver mysql)
2) saved $20000 (cost of hardware to have the same speed in php)
3) saved $20-50000 (to have a license of php cluster scheduler)
4) have a 100% reliable system

Now, try do the same in visual C++ ! Take months do the same, and the exceptions are still bad managed!

Marketing people, want use me as case study?

GO DELPHI, GO DELPHI! GREAT DELPHI FOREVER!

;) Roby
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