Hello folks. I use Perl for just about everything on my server side. What I am dealing with now is the need to find something on the server side that can handle computational tasks easily and quickly (specifically financial data). I am crunching a lot of numbers and this crunching needs to be done on the fly in some cases (for display on a webpage) and in others, it needs to be done for purposes of caching. Does anyone have any recommendations or advice they'd like to share? Many thanks!
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It really depends on your webserver. If you're running on IIS then C# under some flavor of ASP.NET is probably going to be the way to go, for Apache I'd look into php.
kekekela
2010-03-05 18:29:10
+1
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I'm no Perl aficionado but I don't see a reason why it couldn't work for what you are doing.
Steven Huwig
2010-03-05 18:52:22
+3
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IMHO when I see someone asking this kind of question I would ** NEVER ** think to consider PHP server side as a language to handle hard core computational tasks, much less Perl (but only because the person asking apparently has realized that he has hit a wall using Perl).
Regarding financial data I can see where needing to compute, let's say, moving averages on the fly would be very intensive and not appropriate for Perl. I am thinking that you probably need a series of routines, each handling a dedicated task, done in C++. You could use Perl along with those C++ routines.
I did see Java recommended on here but it seems that the whole process of the virtual machine would slow things down. Not being a java expert I'm not sure though.
Nikki
2010-03-05 19:20:36