this may make some of you cringe, so i apologize
i've moved over a bunch of image processing and file uploading from a
mod_perl project to the turbogears python framework - i seriously
hate the speed and quality of GD / ImageMagick, and python's imaging
library was better suited to my needs. keeping the imaging and
document handling off of modperl conserved a ton of memory and
resources too, so i'm happy.
the issue came though - how do i transparently handle the switchover
for the users?
the answer:
a- url dispatch proxies the relative urls to python
b- use a cross-language data store for sessions -- which ended up
being yaml.
there already is an apache session flex module for yaml, but it
handles everything via the pure-perl yaml implementation
i patched it to use the syck library if available:
http://dev.2xlp.com/svn/mod_perl/cpan_patches/
Apache::Session::Serialize::YAML/trunk/YAML.pm
the idea was from the JSON::Syck implementation - written by the same
person who wrote yaml, but he's yet to update the official flex::yaml
binding (he was working on a real release last month )
i desperately needed the speed bump ( 30-100x faster than the pure
perl, though still 25-50% the speed of Storable ) - so in case anyone
else in in a similar spot, you can try using the file above.
