Re: [MacPerl] Perl asynchrinosity and usefulness as CGI development platform

[munroe@acornsw.com (Dick Munroe)]

>Hello everyone!
>
>I fell in love with Perl awhile ago when doing a fairly simple CGI program
>for a website running on a Unix box (NCSA was the server, I believe)..
>What a wonderful programming language!
>
>Now, I have moved on to a Macintosh WebStar server (v1.2) and am
>reevaluating CGI technology.
>
>My question of the day:  How robust is MacPerl as an asynchronous CGI
>engine??  Can a MacPerl droplet(?) handle getting 20 requests shoved at it
>at once and deal with it in a mature appropriate fashion? :-)
>
>Thanks for your reply!
>
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>
>Reuben King <azzy@io.com>
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If you really need multithreading you might want to look at Frontier at
http://www.scripting.com/ (also free).  I'm waiting for the OSA version of
MacPerl so that I can run it under Frontier and get my multithreading for
free.

Dick

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