I appreciate this, as I'd been wondering.
But it also prompts me to.. I gotta ask...
No offence but...
Don't you know what a here_doc is?
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Dodger
2008/7/9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> A couple of months ago i was going through slides from gozers "From CGI to
> mod_perl 2.0, Fast!" talk, which has some benchmarks comparing CGI, perlrun
> and registry to each other. At which point i realized that i've never
> really known how much faster using straight handlers is than using one of
> the CGI emulation layers. I also didn't have any idea how much faster
> SetHandler modperl was vs SetHandler perl-script.
>
> So i decided to see what i could figure out. I took gozers CGI from the
> slides (slightly modified) and ran it through the paces on my laptop, then
> converted the script to run as a straight handler.
>
> here's the CGI version:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
>
> print qq[Content-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n];
>
> print(qq[
> <html><body>
> <h1>Hello Worlds</h1>
> <pre>
> GATEWAY_INTERFACE: $ENV{GATEWAY_INTERFACE}
> MOD_PERL: $ENV{MOD_PERL}
> </pre>
> </body></html>
>
> ]);
>
>
> Here's the Handler version
>
> package Kabob::HelloWorld;
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> use Apache2::RequestRec ();
>
> use Apache2::Const -compile =>qw(:common);
>
> sub handler {
> my $r = shift;
>
> $r->content_type('text/html');
> $r->print(qq[
> <html><body>
> <h1>Hello Worlds</h1>
> <pre>
> GATEWAY_INTERFACE: $ENV{GATEWAY_INTERFACE}
> MOD_PERL: $ENV{MOD_PERL}
> </pre>
> </body></html>
>
>
> ]);
>
> return Apache2::Const::OK;
> }
>
> 1;
>
> and here's the conf (these tests were all running through a light mod_proxy
> front end too)
>
>
> <Location /cgi/>
> <IfDefine FrontEnd>
> ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/cgi/
> ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/cgi/
> </IfDefine>
> </Location>
> <IfDefine BackEnd>
> ScriptAlias /cgi/ /www/p/
> </IfDefine>
>
>
> Alias /perlrun/ /www/p/
> <Location /perlrun/>
> <IfDefine FrontEnd>
> ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/perlrun/
> ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/perlrun/
> </IfDefine>
> <IfDefine BackEnd>
> SetHandler perl-script
> PerlHandler ModPerl::PerlRun
> Options +ExecCGI
> PerlSendHeader On
> </IfDefine>
> </Location>
>
> Alias /registry/ /www/p/
> <Location /registry/>
> <IfDefine FrontEnd>
> ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/registry/
> ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/registry/
> </IfDefine>
> <IfDefine BackEnd>
> SetHandler perl-script
> PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry
> Options +ExecCGI
> PerlSendHeader On
> </IfDefine>
> </Location>
>
>
>
> <Location /perlscript/>
> <IfDefine FrontEnd>
> ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/perlscript/
> ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/perlscript/
> </IfDefine>
> <IfDefine BackEnd>
> SetHandler perl-script
> PerlResponseHandler Kabob::HelloWorld
> </IfDefine>
> </Location>
>
> <Location /modperl/>
> <IfDefine FrontEnd>
> ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/modperl/
> ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/modperl/
> </IfDefine>
> <IfDefine BackEnd>
> SetHandler modperl
> PerlResponseHandler Kabob::HelloWorld
> </IfDefine>
> </Location>
>
>
> and here's the results (which are no doubt flawed for a number of reasons)
>
> running: ab -n 10000 [url]
>
> CGI
> Requests per second: 217.80 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request: 4.591 [ms] (mean)
> Transfer rate: 53.17 [Kbytes/sec] received
>
> PerlRun
> Requests per second: 482.49 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request: 2.073 [ms] (mean)
> Transfer rate: 114.49 [Kbytes/sec] received
>
> Registry
> Requests per second: 693.33 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request: 1.442 [ms] (mean)
> Transfer rate: 164.53 [Kbytes/sec] received
>
> SetHandler perl-script
> Requests per second: 772.12 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request: 1.295 [ms] (mean)
> Transfer rate: 189.94 [Kbytes/sec] received
>
> SetHandler modperl
> Requests per second: 1048.66 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request: 0.954 [ms] (mean)
> Transfer rate: 250.84 [Kbytes/sec] received
>
> I'm not sure how well you can really compare the CGI emulation numbers to
> the PerlHandler numbers, but personally i think the 30%ish improvement from
> perl-script to modperl is pretty amazing. I wouldn't have imagined it would
> have been that high.
>
> Adam
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Dodger
