Derek Glidden wrote:
> Sergei Kolodka wrote:
> >
> > Anyone here tried to compile OpenSRS cgi's
> > in executebles with perlcc or B::C ?
> > Interested in result, is compiling increases
> > speed and what about server's load ?
>
> I haven't tried, but my guess is going to be that you're not going to
> get a whole lot from it. Most of the program's time is going to be
> spent waiting either for user input from the webpage or from a response
> from the OpenSRS server, so compiling your app is just going to enable
> it to wait faster. :)
Compiling a perl app with B::C will mainly make it startup faster, but not
execute any faster. From the B::C manpage:
"compiling with this backend will not help improve the runtime
execution speed of your program but may improve the start-
up time."
The main problem with perl scripts on slow machines is that sometimes you have
to wait a second for the script to parse. With CGI the script is parsed every
time that it is run, because a new processes is created each time. That's why
mod_perl was created, which allows you to parse everything once (storing the
parsed code in the Apache server) and then have the server handle a bunch of
requests super-quick.
I do believe that OpenSRS does run under mod_perl as a registry script.
See: http://perl.apache.org/
David Harris
President, DRH Internet Inc.
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