On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 16:41:59 -0700 (PDT) quiet_lad <gavcom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> curious > mostly the performance issues vary wildly depending on the underlying os and perhaps driver issues. werc is a set of shell scripts which on casual inspection ought to have performance problems of the same sort as cgi but an order of magnitude worse: shell scripts and cgi both involve the same sort of piping data between programs and running little programs as needed, but given a c cgi there are only 2 pipes (in and out) and only one program start per web page load (the cgi itself). some operating systems handle communication and program running orders of magnitude better than others! i wasn't expecting much performance when i wrote rc-httpd and used it with werc. i was using os x at the time, on a core 2 quad which wasn't made by apple but seemed to work pretty well. performance was what i expected, i had been conditioned to believe scripts were slow but it was a fast machine, and indeed web page serving was noticeably not instant. for a server on a home net connection it was more than adequate, so i wasn't worried. later i moved the setup to a real but old mac: a "g3+" ibook with a 466MHz ppc proc. performance was abominable! it was unusably slow. i did that because i was installing linux on the core 2 quad, and with that done i moved rc-httpd and werc back to it. i was surprised, linux turned out to be *much* better at running shell scripts than os x on the same hardware. later still i moved rc-httpd to a core 2 duo running plan 9. initially i was disappointed, it was a bit slow. however that machine was set to use ide emulation for its sata drive. recently i switched it to normal sata operation, and still using plan 9 the performance of rc-httpd became blazingly quick! to my eyes it's faster than the linux quad core. -- typo of the day: os ox. must be something to compete with that sloppy old gnu, right? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "werc" group. To post to this group, send email to werc9@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to werc9+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/werc9?hl=en.
