I spoke to the technical lead at Yahoo who said mod_perl will not scale as well as c++ when you get to their level of traffic, but for a large ecommerce site mod_perl is fine.
I think people just stick to what they started with. We wrote our site racesearch.com using mod_perl and it is super fast. (faster than Amazon.com) -tom -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Yoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mod_perl vs. C for high performance Apache modules Hi All, Recently I did a substantial project for a client in using mod_perl. That client is happy with the work, but an investor with their company is very angry because of what a horrible choice mod_perl is for high-load web applications compared with Apache modules and even CGI programs, written in C. If anyone on this list could forward any resources that do comparisons along these lines, or even analysis of mod_perl's handling of high-load web traffic, I would be very grateful. Cheers, Jeff -- Jeff Yoak 626-705-6996
