On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:

> > 	Are you using mod_perl or fastcgi on the server? Switching
> > 	a heavy perl/postgresql cgi client to fastcgi increased its
> > 	apachebench top rate from 1.8 hits per second to over 80.
>
> the best solution is to write CGI in C so it will not by VERY slow as perl
> is.

	The big cost with perl is startup. If you have a requirement
	well suited to perl's hashing datastructures and features its
	hard to significantly outperform running perl with running c
	without a lot of work.

	Unless your program is trivial the selection of fastcgi over cgi
	is more significant than between c and perl.

	The program in question is not that large (its an online fantasy
	system with everything pulled from a SQL database), but it has to
	dynamically process templates and languages in a way that would
	have made it uneconomic to write it in c.

	Horses for courses.

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