Hi Josh, How about the "dual setup", a plain Apache + a mod_perl Apache, which some mod_perl sites are based on? Another interesting candidate is fastCGI.
Peter > We get very similar numbers in our benchmarking. Please see > the benchmarks I have published on this at: > > http://chamas.com/bench/ > > If you compare the results of the Hellow World 2000 > vs. the Hello World for mod_perl and C Apache API module, > you will see that the performance gap narrows the more > application type work you do. This would not hold up > if you were doing intensive number crunching I might add, > where C would be much better in the end game, but if you > are just doing web applications, you probably won't get > much more performance out of a pure C implementation. > > Note, that if you ever have any critical sections of code > in perl that need to be optimized, you can always code > up that section in C using XS or the newer Inline:: modules. > Further realize that if you pick an application environment > like Template Toolkit, Embperl, or AxKit, you are often > getting a lot of fast C under the hood anyway as those > authors have already done the optimizations for you. > > Regards, > > Josh > ________________________________________________________________ > Josh Chamas, Founder phone:925-552-0128 > Chamas Enterprises Inc. http://www.chamas.com > NodeWorks Link Checking http://www.nodeworks.com >
