[wp-hackers] Jeff Atwood on WP Overhead

[Eric Marden]

> Hey, he's Microsoft-centric. This makes him prone to thinking that
> software packages should be complete and cover all possible cases in
> that package. This is the same sort of thinking that gets you
> Microsoft Office.
>
> The Linux-centric crowd tends to go for the smaller packages that do a
> single thing well and then plugging them together for your final
> solution approach.

Not to mention that PHP on Windows is slower than PHP on Linux, and  
PHP CGI is slower than mod_php, in my experience.

-e