On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Adi wrote:
> [OT: already posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], just thought people here might have
> suggestions, comments, etc]
>
> I am thinking about writing the XS glue for the apache bench tool (ab). The
> ab code as it is, is not very flexible, but it is damn fast. If I
> implemented it as a perl XS module, I could add the flexibility into a nice
> OO package.
>
> Is there any interest in such a module? Could it fit in with LWP somehow?
> I have not tried out LWPng yet - does it use XS code to speed up requests
> much faster than LWP?
>
> At our company we need to write a benchmarking suite, and LWP fits our needs
> perfectly except for the fact that its just not fast enough. It would be
> perfect if we could integrate ab with LWP. So, just wanting to get general
> feedback from the LWP community on whether such software would be useful to
> others.
I'd love to see something like that.
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