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SPOILER: There are very few imageboards out there, that need to worry about performance. Come on, even 4chan (the biggest English one constantly using all of uplink) runs PHP+MySQL on Apache...
Right now, I can't understand the performance pissing contest at all. Instead of actually going and writing something, people spend time arguing about the language they should write it in.
Who the fuck cares? I mean, besides /img/ and /prog/ trolls and EXPERT PROGRAMMERS.
Just do it in the one you know the best, for crying out loud.