According to Schwartz, when he last spoke on the subject, He recommended using prefork with mp2. I guess he wasn't impressed enough with threads yet.
Jay Scherrer On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 08:39 +0200, Tom Schindl wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Foo Ji-Haw schrieb: > | Hello Michael, > | > | Are you saying that Perl with ithreads is slower, therefore > | implementation of threading on Perl is generally avoided? > | > | I write apps for both Windows and UNIX platforms. I thought that > | iThreads is the better alternative to forking, which I think is not well > | implemented in Windows. > | > > As far as I know there's only a threaded mpm for Apache2 available on > win32. If you have to support win32 and unix your modules must certainly > be thread aware which means you can not use all functions > mod_perl-provides to you. e.g. setting the document_root is one of those > if I remember correctly. You cannot use perls "chdir", ... . > > Perl with compiled threads support (used or not used) is much slower and > when new threads are started the whole memory is copied over because > there's no copy-on-write logic like there is for fork. > > > Tom > > | Michael Peters wrote: > | > |> Foo Ji-Haw wrote: > |> > |> > |>> Hello Philip, > |>> > |>> You are suggesting that FBSD 4.x is not easy to compile ithreads via > |>> ports. I wonder why FBSD even on 5.x does not come with ithreads > |>> precompiled (Linux does!). But I find it quite a deterent to use FBSD > |>> for multiple apps in the future. > |>> > |> > |> > |> One of the biggest complaints I hear (and voice) is that the linux > |> distros ship a perl with ithreads. It's slower and almost noone wants or > |> needs it. It looks like FBSD is doing what the majority of people want > |> it to do, so I wouldn't knock it :) > |> > |> > |> > | > | > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCbzONkVPeOFLgZFIRAoT7AJ9SVaXiBQvNNWwebKZHhJeblbFnVQCfQCWf > u31I+dYacvfshbdzVwW2IQE= > =drPU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
