re: increased performance. True enough, but we should also be aware that the vast majority of people are still running 2.2.x and that httpd is still seen as a slow, bloated monster compared to nginx, which is gradually being seen as the web-server for the web.
On Jan 7, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Stefan Fritsch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 06 January 2013, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> We could, but it's not my personal pref as RM... >> After all, ApacheCon will be here before we know >> it :/ > > That's probably true ;) > >> FWIW, I see the this dynamic nature of 2.4 as much >> as a killer feature as the increased performance >> as related to "comparisons" between httpd and other >> web-servers out there, including the fanboys latest >> flavor. Hence my desire to try to have this in >> asap, so I can re-dive into the optimized event/simple- >> MPM hybrid I was working on, which itself I hope to >> have done by ACNA2013. > > BTW, I don't believe the increased performance in 2.4 should be > overrated. It gives some nice improvements with some workloads, but > there are still plenty of cases where scalability remains bad (e.g. > ssl or long-lasting proxy-requests). >
