> I've never done any CGI stuff before, but can't you employ some kind > of messaging mechanism with an already running process?
Yes. I find it's quite useful when you want instant notifications on something, like a web chat application, but it could do some speed boosts too. I'm working on a post showing some of my benchmarks too on built-in vs cgi. Some of them are over 20x faster with a built in webserver! (I wonder if this is cgi's fault or if Apache is just not optimized for it... I'm changing the i/o code too so we can make sure it's not just stdio being slow.)
