[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Yoak) writes: [C vs mod_perl for web applications] > with something I've done, and a client's investor who is blowing a gasket > because of the opinion that using mod_perl is a completely psychotic choice > for a website that is going to experience high traffic. I'm in the process > of defending my choices right now, and a little extra ammunition would be > useful.
As Nathan pointed out, it's more complicated than so. How high traffic? The "softer" arguments includes stuff like much shorter development time for new features, including performance features. With Perl you might be able to implement, say, caching faster than you can get the basic application done in C. http://www.masonhq.com/about/sites.html includes some bigger sites. The eToys paper (it's at perl.com) includes some performance number on their Perl based system. ValueClick have done about 4000 dynamic requests per second on one cluster of mod_perl servers. I have a signature that says "more than a billion impressions per week". You can probably find more stories like that on the mod_perl mailinglist. (Stas is reading this list, maybe he can think of more high volume examples). - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do();
