QUOTE(LamontStormstar @ Mon 13th October 2008, 11:57am)
Hmmm I thought Python was faster than PHP and Perl ... Are you serious that yahoo's whole website is PHP? That's something. ... Odd they also use MySQL. I thought they might use some premium service like Oracle.
Python only seems faster because hardly anyone does anything of any scale or size in it.
Yes, Yahoo is mostly PHP, and they have always been the poster-child for MySQL scalability, it being "enterprise class" vs. Oracle, etc.