> I spoke to the technical lead at Yahoo who said mod_perl will not scale as > well as c++ when you get to their level of traffic, but for a large > ecommerce site mod_perl is fine.
Scalability has less to do with language/execution environment than which database you are using. Path length is affected by language, but that's usually not the major factor in scalability. You want short path lengths to get more efficiency out of your machines. Rob
