Re: [MacPerl] acgi vs cgi

[Strider <Strider@clarityconnect.com>]

At 2:44 PM -0500 11/8/97, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 13.43 11/8/97, Strider wrote:
>>If I'm not mistaken, ACGI is Asynchronous Common Gateway Interface, as
>>opposed to Synchronous. The difference is that an ACGI doesn't wait for one
>>process to finish before another begins- faster, but it takes more memory
>>and I don't think it's supported by ALL servers, but any one that's good
>>(QPQ, WebStar, etc.) do. Even Netpresenz does, if I'm not mistaken.
>
>But I'm not sure how this relates to MacPerl, as MacPerl can only execute
>one at a time anyway, right?

True, but it has provisions to handle more than one connection at once.
That's what an ACGI does- it doesn't do multiprocessing. =)

- Strider



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