>From: Gunther Birznieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: mod_perl compat on win32? RE: mod_perl weaknesses? help me
>build a case....
>Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:40:51 +0800
>
>
>
>Soulhuntre wrote:
>
> > Hiya :)
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Leslie Mikesell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 1:34 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: mod_perl weaknesses? help me build a case....
> > >
> > > Your problem here is going to be that mod_perl is not thread-safe
> > > and will serialize everything when running under the threaded
> > > model that apache uses under windows. If your scripts are fast enough
> > > you might be able to live with this if you use it as a back end
> > > to a lightweight front-end proxy which a busy site needs anyway.
> >
> > Ok... that makes sense :)
> >
> > On a side note... is mod_perl/apache on linux compatible with
>IIS/operlex
> > from activestate on the Win32 side?
> >
>
>For all intents and purposes, PerlEx is basically compatible with
>mod_perl/Apache::Registry. However, the END {} blocks are interpreted
>differently (augh!)... which shouldn't really be that much of an issue for
>most programs.
>
>The good thing about PerlEx as opposed to mod_perl/Win32 is that instead of
>serializing all the calls to one Perl interpreter, ActiveState Perl
>actually
>creates multiple Perl interpreter "objects" that can be round-robined among
>the IIS threads.
>
> >
> > If so, that's a big boost for me...
> >
>
>I've been testing all my code on both PerlEx and mod_perl. And haven't had
>very many problems at all with compatibility. I think UNIX/mod_perl is
>faster
>than NT/IIS/PerlEx on the same hardware (from my unscientific observation),
>but PerlEx seems much faster than ASPs.
>
i've made a stupid unscientific benckmark:
the program loops 1000000 and print a series of "a ", PerlEx takes the same
time as ASP (same NT machine) , BUT processor goes 100% with PerlEx, 45%
with ASP.
Can someone benchmark mod_perl under Win32, using the same stupid program ?
>Later,
> Gunther
>
>
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