Porting code from CGI to mod_perl is a fun project.
This is a late reply to your original post but wanted to point out an
excellent resource - the Practical mod_perl book. The link for the book
on the mod_perl site (perl.apache.org) is broken but you can find it at
https://modperl2book.org/mp1/. It was written when mod_perl 1 was in use
but the concepts explained are still valid. Be aware there was some
renaming in mod_perl 2. For example, Apache::Registry became
ModPerl::Registry.
Chapter 6, "Coding with mod_perl in mind" is full of good stuff about
what to watch out for as you refactor your code for mod_perl, including
the problem with __DATA__ that you had (from a later post). In fact, the
whole book is a great read. I highly recommend skimming through it and
reading in detail as you see fit.
On 2/6/2021 4:59 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
Hi all,
So for many years I've been slack and writing perl scripts to do various
things - but never needed more than the normal apache +ExecCGI and
Template Toolkit.
One of my sites has become a bit more popular, so I'd like to spend a
bit of time on performance. Currently, I'm seeing ~300-400ms of what I
believe to be execution time of the script loading, running, and then
blatting its output to STDOUT and the browser can go do its thing.
I believe most of the delay would be to do with loading perl, its
modules etc etc
I know that the current trend would be to re-write the entire site in a
more modern, daemon based solution - and I started down the Mojolicious
path - but the amount of re-writing to save 1/3rd of a second seems to
be excessive
Would I be correct in thinking that mod_perl would help in this case?
I did try a basic test, but I have a 'use functions' in all my scripts
that loads a .pm with some global vars and a lot of common subs - and
for whatever reason (can't find anything on Google as to why), none of
the subs are recognised in the main script when loaded via ModPerl::PerlRun.
So throwing it out to the list - am I on the right track? wasting my
time? or just a simple mistake?
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