There are lot of other server scripting languages, such as ASP, Perl, and Java Servlets, can we say that PHP shows solid performance compared with other’s.

We can say that PHP shows solid performance compared with other server scripting languages, such as ASP, Perl, and Java Servlets because of the powerful zend engine. To further improve performance, you can acquire a caching tool (Zend Accelerator), it stores compiled code in memory, eliminating the overhead of parsing and interpreting source files for every request.