Re: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-12-13 Thread Doug MacEachern
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > There was a short discussion a while ago about getting mod_perl working > with Apache 2.0. Since Apache 2.0 can actually be built and run on a > few platforms now, I think it is worth taking a lot at this for real. I started to fiddle with 5.005_63 and

Re: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-11-03 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
"C. Jon Larsen" wrote: > > One of the main reasons I use mod_perl is because of the pre-fork caching > I can do in the parent that the children can share cheaply. I take huge > data structures and assemble them in ram as read-only databases (read > hash tables) that are much faster and simpler to

RE: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-11-03 Thread C. Jon Larsen
One of the main reasons I use mod_perl is because of the pre-fork caching I can do in the parent that the children can share cheaply. I take huge data structures and assemble them in ram as read-only databases (read hash tables) that are much faster and simpler to access than sql (I use sql only

RE: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-11-03 Thread Gerald Richter
> I'm assuming that Perl itself is reentrant, since it has been embedded > in multithreaded environments before (IIS). Hopefully someone can > comment on that. > Perl 5.005 has experimetal thread support, Perl 5.006 might be stable enought to really use it. What ActiveState has done for IIS, is

mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Baker
There was a short discussion a while ago about getting mod_perl working with Apache 2.0. Since Apache 2.0 can actually be built and run on a few platforms now, I think it is worth taking a lot at this for real. As far as I can tell, these are the broad things that need to be done: *Make all mod

RE: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-01-03 Thread Eric Cholet
Jeffrey Baker: > I believe -DMULTIPLICITY is already in 5.005_03. Check "man perlembed". > Yes but I believe the problem is that it isn't thread-safe, that's supposed to be fixed in 5.6. It might be already the case with 5.005_62, I haven't checked yet. -- Eric

Re: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Baker
Matt Sergeant wrote: > > On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > > I'm assuming that Perl itself is reentrant, since it has been embedded > > in multithreaded environments before (IIS). Hopefully someone can > > comment on that. > > This work was based on PERL_OBJECT support, which is curre

RE: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-01-02 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, Gerald Richter wrote: > > > > Perl threads have nothing to do with OS level threads. They aren't > > native; they're part of the language itself and don't depend or rely > > on POSIX threads, native threads, or other such things. In > > particular, Perl threading doesn't mea

Re: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-01-02 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > I'm assuming that Perl itself is reentrant, since it has been embedded > in multithreaded environments before (IIS). Hopefully someone can > comment on that. This work was based on PERL_OBJECT support, which is currently only available on windows. It's

RE: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-01-02 Thread Gerald Richter
> > Perl threads have nothing to do with OS level threads. They aren't > native; they're part of the language itself and don't depend or rely > on POSIX threads, native threads, or other such things. In > particular, Perl threading doesn't mean that Perl is thread safe. > Yes, Perl threads are

Re: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-01-02 Thread Chip Turner
"Gerald Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm assuming that Perl itself is reentrant, since it has been embedded > > in multithreaded environments before (IIS). Hopefully someone can > > comment on that. > > > Perl 5.005 has experimetal thread support, Perl 5.006 might be stable > enought