[ NOW OT ] Re: HTTP Mod_Perl mini-server

2000-11-04 Thread Greg Cope
Perrin Harkins wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: > > Lately I've been getting very interested in using solid-state disks > > for high-performance issues. They're expensive, but if you need that > > much speed, they're worth it. > > Are they? I tried one once, and it wasn't any

Re: Perl vs Java [Now OT]

2000-06-12 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > >Unless you use a cluster of servers for load balancing and high > >availability, in which case you're right back where you started and you > >need the Java equivalent of Apache::Session::DBI. I imagine someone has > >written one in one of the many

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2000-06-12 Thread Paul
> WAY OT at this point :) Okay, time for me to graduate from "rube-ness" on this one. (~lol~) What, exactly, is OT? :o) Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com

Re: Perl vs Java [Now OT]

2000-06-12 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 06:01 PM 6/11/00 -0700, Perrin Harkins wrote: >On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > > 1. Session management. Because servlets are multi-threaded they have easy, > > quick access to a shared memory pool. All the locking and shared > > persistence code used in Apache::Session is render

Re: Perl vs Java [Now OT]

2000-06-12 Thread shane
WAY OT at this point :) > [OT] > My personal take: > Where (at least for me) Java has it's niche is client side, for > applets and applications. But for this, 'write once use anywhere' just > isn't true. Look at Java1.3 (which you really want to use for > GUI-intensive stuff, though their ev

Re: Perl vs Java [Now OT]

2000-06-11 Thread Gunther Birznieks
They pretty much all support Perl. Very few if any would ever support mod_perl at US$10/month. There is a list of ISPs in the guide (or on the web site?) that support mod_perl, but you have to expect to pay more than US$10/month for those services. At 12:53 PM 6/12/00 +1000, Peter Skipworth w

Re: Perl vs Java [Now OT]

2000-06-11 Thread Peter Skipworth
Sorry to butt in - I'm sure this question is answered elsewhere, but is there a list of "$10 a month ISPs" supporting perl and/or mod_perl code somewhere on the web ? Thanks, P > The other thing is portability. In Perl, I can test everything I do on a > $10 a month ISP and yet scale it to a m

Re: Perl vs Java [Now OT]

2000-06-11 Thread dreamwvr
hi, this has been great! although my thoughts were that DB_File is way faster than anything there is in java as a state engine.. but then again i could be wrong.. been there done that! Best Regards,

Re: Perl vs Java [Now OT]

2000-06-11 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > 1. Session management. Because servlets are multi-threaded they have easy, > quick access to a shared memory pool. All the locking and shared > persistence code used in Apache::Session is rendered moot by the shared > memory Java model. Unless yo

Re: Perl vs Java [Now OT]

2000-06-11 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 06:39 PM 6/11/00 -0500, Gerd Knops wrote: >dreamwvr wrote: > > hi Gerd, > > that was very much what i was looking for! hmm.. seems that perl is > > definately one of the most mem efficient langs whereas java is not. > > cool and definately great reading although "talk about detail!" this > > is

Re: Perl vs Java [Now OT]

2000-06-11 Thread Gerd Knops
dreamwvr wrote: > hi Gerd, > that was very much what i was looking for! hmm.. seems that perl is > definately one of the most mem efficient langs whereas java is not. > cool and definately great reading although "talk about detail!" this > is good! Java has become acceptable for a compiled languag