On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Tina Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, J. Peng wrote: > > > modperl is fast, but it consumes too much memory. > > so we choose fastcgi written by C++. > > actually it consumes less memory than FastCGI if you do it right. If you > load as many modules and data structures as you can at startup time, > Apache will share the memory between the processes (as long as you don't > change the data). > With FastCGI this is not possible (or so I was told), so you usually end > up with using more memory.
The process model is pretty similar (pre-fork), so it should be about the same. The important part of that sentence though was "C++", which would have a smaller footprint than Perl if it was done well. It's a tradeoff for developer time of course... - Perrin
