On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com> wrote: > My site algebra.com is about 80,000 lines of mod_perl code. > > I wrote a relatively large framework, with many homegrown perl modules, > about five years ago. > It uses a database, image generation modules, a big mathematical engine that > I wrote (that "shows work", unlike popular third party packages), etc. > > All pages of my site are dynamic and it is very image heavy due to math > formulae. > > I can say two things: > > 1) It is relatively fast, serving pages in 0.1 seconds or so
It is fast, just visited it. However, I think you could get a faster initial page load by compressing the html returned to the client using mod_deflate. The main page request was 137 milliseconds and you could probably drop that by 30-50% with gzipping the output. Nice work! > 2) Despite the quantity of code, and its age, it is still very maintainable > and understandable (to me). > > If I was to make a choice again, I would go with mod_perl again. With Perl, > I can "stand on the shoulders of giants" like Lincoln etc, and use the > brilliant stuff they provided to serve my users. Yes, that's why I use mod_perl. The core developers on the Apache Httpd, and mod_perl core are world class.
