* Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001114 00:42]:
> I believe that you are until the model completely changes under Apache
> 2.0... Until Unix Apache supports multi-threading, supporting it in windows
> pre-2.0 is not quite such a high priority I suspect.
>
> You should consider using ActiveState's PerlEx. Yes, it's commercial but
> development is free and the commercial license is not going to break any
> budgets (I think less than US$1000). The downside is that it's only an
> Apache::Registry clone. But if all you need is Perl spedup, it's a nice
> solution. THe plus is getting support from ActiveState. They compile all
> the Win32 modules so if you run into a multithreaded problem with a module
> then they can try hammering on it or even work on fixing it.
>
> In fact, I dare say that ActiveState has probably caused a lot of
> multithreaded module legwork to be done before mod_perl moves to that model
> which is a good thing. Since most modules will have already been fairly
> debugged when Apache/mod_perl 2.0 are out.
I don't work for ActiveState or anything, but I'll second what Gunther
said. And PerlEx is only $395, IMO a steal. I'm not sure why more
people don't use this. (OTOH, if you can get away with how mod_perl
currently works on Win32 then there's not much point in PerlEx.)
Chris
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