getting to know more about mod_perl

2006-08-29 Thread Adriano Ferreira
Hi, mod_perl people. I am preparing a presentation about technologies which make Perl more visible. In this vein, I would like to say a few words about mod_perl. But I am short of knowledge on this subject and need to understand some things about it, to sound convivincing. Then I dare to bother

Re: getting to know more about mod_perl

2006-08-29 Thread Clinton Gormley
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:20 -0300, Adriano Ferreira wrote: Hi, mod_perl people. I am preparing a presentation about technologies which make Perl more visible. In this vein, I would like to say a few words about mod_perl. But I am short of knowledge on this subject and need to understand

Re: getting to know more about mod_perl

2006-08-29 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:20 -0300, Adriano Ferreira wrote: Q: how does mod_perl compares to PHP? Since this comes up frequently, many people have tried to answer it. You can see some threads if you search perlmonks.org for PHP. Here are some to get you started:

Re: getting to know more about mod_perl

2006-08-29 Thread Frank Wiles
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:27:02 +0200 Clinton Gormley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:20 -0300, Adriano Ferreira wrote: Hi, mod_perl people. I am preparing a presentation about technologies which make Perl more visible. In this vein, I would like to say a few words about

Re: getting to know more about mod_perl

2006-08-29 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 8/29/06, Frank Wiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:27:02 +0200 Based on what I've read recently performance is comparable. They are both free so I'm not sure what you mean by cost. I meant cost with respect to the machine resources: mainly, memory and processor time.

Re: getting to know more about mod_perl

2006-08-29 Thread Boysenberry Payne
I started as a PHP/Javascript guy, then moved to Perl. Perl has proven to be way more flexible a language to program in, a pro to me, a con to some. Besides its support for myriad programming styles, CPAN offers hundreds, if not thousands of open source modules to use with perl. This is good

Re: getting to know more about mod_perl

2006-08-29 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
On Aug 29, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Adriano Ferreira wrote: I meant cost with respect to the machine resources: mainly, memory and processor time. Thanks a lot for the various references that I am going to absorb. mod_perl consumes more memory than php- php compiles into a smaller footprint, but