Whats a good server side language for doing some pretty cpu and memory intensive things that plays well with php and mysql. Currently, I have a php script which runs some calculations based on a large subset of a fairly large database and than updates that database based on those calculations (1.5millions rows). The current implementation is very slow, taking 1-2 hours depending on other activities on the server. I was hoping to improve this and was wondering what peoples opinions are on a good language for this type of task?
The language isn't the issue, your issue is probably where you are doing these calculations. Sounds like you may be better off writing this in SQL, if possible. Is it? What are you doing?