On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 01:20:15AM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:38:49PM +0000, Shevek wrote: > > > I do try to stay out of the opinion ring but this, in my opinion, is a > > steaming pile. Scaling mod_perl up to a few hundred hits a second isn't > > hard. > > Scaling perl CGIs up to a few hundred a second is merely hard, but not > impossible.
Definitely on the "difficult" side of "hard" :-) $ time perl -e '$a = `perl -le "print q[hello]"` for (1..200)' real 0m1.068s user 0m0.600s sys 0m0.380s $ host -t hinfo paulm.com paulm.com HINFO "Intel-1.8GHz-P4" "Debian-GNU/Linux" $ For fun, $ time perl -e '$a = `perl -MCGI -le "print CGI->header, CGI->h1(q[hello])"` for (1..200)' real 0m10.329s user 0m8.400s sys 0m0.990s $ Heh. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ....................................... http://paulm.com/ "What is between a duck? A female grizzly and her cub." -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
