> What really makes mod_perl better than Java?
This is a common thread, which you should look up in the archives. It's
best to avoid starting up a discussion with this vague a question, since it
will lead to a flood of advocacy e-mails.
> Didn't the eToys guys do some benchmarking? (Perrin?)
We did. We knew we were going to use Linux, so we took the fastest Java
stuff (Resin + IBM's JVM) and wrote a quick test servlet to select some
stuff from Oracle and display it. When we ran the same thing under
mod_perl, Perl was a little bit faster. Note that Caucho has some
benchmarks they published which are not very good since they have poorly
optimized Perl code (it's a Registry script, not a handler).
When we saw that Perl was just as fast, we had no reason to switch from a
productive platform that we all liked to one that only some of our team had
skills on.
- Perrin
