RE: [MacPerl] Web application servers and the future of Perl

["Creede Lambard (Volt Computer)" <a-creela@microsoft.com>]

Just my EU .02, take it as from someone who uses Perl about 99% of the time
for things OTHER than web applications.

As I understand it, one of the main reasons you would use an app server is
that if you run standalone applications, you're opening a new instance of
the Perl interpreter every time someone calls a page that calls a script.
It's not much of a leap of logic to see that if you have a high- or even
medium-traffic web site, you're going to be running a LOT of Perl
interpreters and your performance is gonna drag.

OTOH if you use an app server, it will open up your script as a thread
inside Apache, IIS or wherever, which is much more efficient and much
faster.

Why wouldn't you want to do this? Beats me -- I've never done it. I have
written about four CGI scripts in my entire life, so I don't consider
performance to be a big problem for the things I do.

As for PerlScript, nothing really evil about it, even if Microsoft did foot
part of the bill for its development (which I think they did). It's a way of
offering Perl for use as a browser-scripting language, similar to JavaScript
or VBScript. 

Anyone on the list who cares to contradict me, feel free to do so -- as I
said, this is what I've heard and read, not what I've actually done.

-- Creede

-----Original Message-----
From: madame philosophe [mailto:mp@mkt2spamisbadmkt.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 12:59 PM
To: macperl@macperl.org
Subject: [MacPerl] Web application servers and the future of Perl


Hi,

I am starting a online group for women scripters and one of the topics
we cover is Perl, as well as other scripting (including fluffy HTML).

There seems to be a lot of talk/pressure of going into web app servers
because the performance is allegedly better than writing straight Perl
scripts. Is this really true?

I am quite skeptical because every 3 months there is a new technology
that is supposed to make everything better faster, whatever. And from
what I can tell the API stuff isn't open, but proprietary, which just
means to me that it is a last ditch effort to distract people from the
openness of Perl, and charge people money for something they can get for
free.

Is this a real issue to look at or should I just concentrate on learning
my Perl?

Some of us are Mac, some are PC, some are UNIX in my group. One person
in particular is looking at PerlScript, which seems to be the evil
side's rendition of Perl. (see http://www.perlscripters.com).

Thanks in advance!

Annalisa
-- 
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