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speedups with mod_perl
The biggest problem is the saturday of registration each quarter. It nearly melted down last quarter, but they think they can use the same hardware and move things to mod_perl for this quarter.
As a test, they took a mod_perl server, and just with Apache::PerlRun (which recompiles the code on each hit, but doesn't fork), they were able to easily improve on a custom C program in CGI mode, talking to a database and executing a simple query. A short Perl program replaced the much-more-clumsy C program.
They're sold! Just wait until they discover Apache::Registry and points beyond.
Just today, I got a complicated version of their Apache server to compile in DSO mode (except for a weird mod_auth_dce module), and demonstrate a caching reverse-proxy server using their existing CGI base, so they have a migration path for mod_perl. Joy.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Advocacy? (Score:3, Interesting)
Purely from a technical standpoint I'd like to know more details about this, 'cuz I'm still a little fuzzy on mod_perl. Something I really need to just grab a tuit and sit down with for a while, methinks.
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