On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:53:06AM -0800, Jeff Yoak wrote: > > If any of you can provide pointers to any resources that compare > implementing interactive web content with mod-perl to writing CGI in > C and / or writing Apache modules in C as far as performance under > high load is concerned, it would really help me out.
We have a mod_perl-like system in place here (a perl interpreter embedded in apache) which is just as fast (for what we're doing) as the C/C++ based apache module stuff that we used before it. The only reason we didn't use mod_perl directly is that we had a lot "legacy" C/C++ libraries that simply expected to be running as apache modules. It was easier to build our own system than re-write all the libraries to behave differently. We wanted to use mod_perl and were comfortable with its performance. When it comes down to it, if you're doing mildly intensive stuff, the fact that you're using Perl or C or C++ doesn't seem to matter nearly as much as how efficiently you can do that stuff. YMMV, of course. :-) Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936
