You're confusing something.
You can write a CGI program in Java or VB (or PHP although you didn't
mention it), and it would be just as inefficient and slow as a CGI program
in Perl (if not more so).
It's the Common Gateway Interface that's slow, not the language.
If you use something that keeps a Perl program resident in memory, such as
PerlEx (for IIS) or mod_perl (for apache), then what you said would pretty
much apply: "... it would be much more efficient, and create a much faster,
secure and better way than writing CGI type scripts."
--
Mark Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sr. Internet Architect User Technology Associates, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Purcell, Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 8:56 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Technology Question
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been talking (lightly) with some others within our
> organization about
> different web technologies. I currently am a CGI.pm user and
> know it pretty
> well. But I am getting the impression that technologies such
> as JSP and ASP,
> are more efficient. In conversation, I believe I am hearing
> that those two
> technologies are more robust, because they do NOT start a new
> instance of my
> perl/cgi script each time the user submits back to the server? Is this
> correct? And if that is so, do those technologies allow the
> ability to hold
> variables across sessions? I will try and better summarize that last
> sentence. Does it mean that one does NOT have to hold state
> (hold variables)
> with text files, dbms, etc? Because if that is the case, it
> appears that it
> would be much more efficient, and create a much faster,
> secure and better
> way than writing CGI type scripts. If I have my facts clear,
> could someone
> let me know, or tell me if I am missing something?
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Scott Purcell
>
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