On Thursday 13 December 2001 01:44 pm, Greg Ames wrote: > Ryan Bloom wrote: > > I still think the handler_fn function is overkill. The performance of > > Apache 1.3 wasn't bad, because we did sane string compares, making sure > > that the lengths were equal before doing a full strcmp. > > You're right, 1.3 was faster than the way we do it now. But we could do > better still. > > I was thinking of something like a hash or a trie search for exact > matches on r->handler. But then OtherBill got me thinking that if a > module decided that it could serve the request in some earlier phase, it > ought to be able to do something to latch on to the handler phase and > eliminate most of the searching altogether.
The problem with this, as I just explained to Bill on the phone, is that you are providing two mechanisms to do the same thing. You are trying to solve a problem in the core by making it harder to write a performant module. The harder it is to write a performant module, the fewer people who will do so. If you want to make this work for the most modules possible, create a single model that all modules must implement, and make that perform the best that it can. Ryan ______________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------
