On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:13 +1000, Badai Aqrandista wrote: > Lots of SQL queries and calculation based on the query results. I've cached > most of the query results, but the calculation results can't be cached > because they depend on user inputs.
If this is serious number-crunching, it might be one of the few times where using C really does make sense for that part. > POE sounds good to start with, right? For a daemon to monitor a queue? Probably not. I'd just write a simple script that polls a database table and forks a new process to handle any jobs it finds. Parallel::ForkManager is handy for this kind of thing. - Perrin
