On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:12:09PM -0800, Jeff Yoak wrote: > > Hi All, > > Recently I did a substantial project for a client in using > mod_perl. That client is happy with the work, but an investor with their > company is very angry because of what a horrible choice mod_perl is for > high-load web applications compared with Apache modules and even CGI > programs, written in C. If anyone on this list could forward any resources > that do comparisons along these lines, or even analysis of mod_perl's > handling of high-load web traffic, I would be very grateful.
CGI programs (even written in C) are very likely to be a lot slower than mod_perl handlers so I can't see where he gets that argument from. Does he really know what mod_perl is? The key to mod_perl development is speed, there are numerous testimonials from users implementing a lot of work in a very short time with mod_perl. Ask the clients investor wheter he wants to pay for having everything you did rewritten as an Apache module in C. That is very likely going to take a lot of time. Take a look at Joshua Chamas benchmarks (Although they're only hello world style apps) it shows that mod_perl is pretty fast. my $cent = 2; -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>
