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

["David C. Kulp" <dkulp@cse.ucsc.edu>]

Chris Nandor writes:
 > At 9:10 10/10/96, Reuben King wrote:
 > >At 5:21 PM -0700 on 10/9/96, David C. Kulp wrote:
 > >> It's my sad experience that Macs just aren't up to this task in
 > >> general.  Perl is great, but the OS strangles it.  I was recently
 > >> running a computationally heavy and IO-intensive Perl app on my
 > >> Mac.  As soon as I switched it to the background, the MacOS gave
 > >> it only 3 out of every 10 seconds of CPU time -- even though nothing
 > >> else was going on in the foreground.
 > >>
 > >Well-- what to do??
 > >
 > >I'm scared of Unix.. And the thought of surrenduring to NT makes me wanna gag..
 > 
 > Learn UNIX.  It isn't that hard.  Fact is that Macs don't multitask (yet).
 > When they do, they will be better.  But they don't, and they won't until at
 > least late next year.  I hear Sys 7.6 (due on January) might improve
 > backgroun operation, but it still isn't multitasking.
 > 

The most recent word I heard regarding MacOS 8 is that the microkernel
is not expected now until 1998.  (From MacWorld.)  Without the new
microkernel you won't get any of the preemptive multitasking or
memory protection which is so needed today.  I love my mac, but if
Apple isn't going to have a serious competitor with win32 until 1998,
then Macs are in trouble.  

Back to our regularly scheduled discussion topic...

cheers,
-david kulp.