This may have slipped by most people, but I know the SpeedyCGI discussions sparked quite a bit of conversation/debate earlier this year, so I thought people might be interested here...
PPerl is a tool I wrote here at Star for running perl processes persistently, as a daemon. The idea for it was simplicity - both in development and in running it. Not only that, but I couldn't get SpeedyCGI to compile, or the author to respond to me, so I wrote my own. So, it's really easy - just use "pperl" wherever you'd have previously used "perl", even in the shebang line. It actually wasn't written for web apps. I wrote it for our virus checker, which is 10K+ lines of perl code, and takes about 0.7s to load, and almost zero time to process an email, so we needed to eliminate that 0.7s. So, the benefit of PPerl is it's more generally usable than FastCGI or SpeedyCGI. There are downsides, of course, like the fact that the daemon stub is written in Perl, rather than C. And the forking version doesn't seem to work (not sure what I've done wrong there), so it's single threaded at the moment (the forking code is in the distro if anyone wants to try and make it work). Anyway, let me know if this interests anyone. It's called PPerl, and it's on CPAN. Matt. -- <:->Get a smart net</:-> _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
