The question is move off to what ? I don't see alternatives being shared which blows an apache+mod_perl setup out of the water.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 7:56 PM Ruben Safir <ru...@mrbrklyn.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:48:48PM +0100, Mark Blackman wrote: > > > > > > > On 4 Aug 2020, at 21:41, Mithun Bhattacharya <mit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I am genuinely curious what are these other "well known" means ? > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:37 PM Mark Blackman <m...@blackmans.org > <mailto:m...@blackmans.org>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 4 Aug 2020, at 17:58, Mithun Bhattacharya <mit...@gmail.com > <mailto:mit...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > > > mod_perl does have value because it does a more efficient > utilization of resources - this is important when fast response time and > scalability is important. The complexity is a known problem but it is not a > mystery box either - there is enough documentation which explains what has > to happen and what could have gone wrong. > > > > > > mod_perl’s relative efficiency can be achieved by other well-known > means. > > > > That would depend on what you mean by "efficient utilisation of > resources”. You can get the same general effect, more simply, by running a > high-performing pre-forking Perl web application server and a web server > with a simple configuration in front of it ,instead of a complicated > Apache+mod_perl installation. > > > > That also buys you a nice separation of concerns, the web server handles > all the complicated host or path rewrites and access control and the Perl > app focuses on responding to the, now-sanitised, fully normalized, HTTP > requests. > > > > Not really and the separtion is not a concern, it is an asset, the most > important one. > > To get faster, you would need to move off apache. > > > > - Mark > > > > > > > > -- > So many immigrant groups have swept through our town > that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological > proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 > http://www.mrbrklyn.com > > DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 > http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software > http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive > http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! > http://www.brooklyn-living.com > > Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, > but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 > >
