Fwd: IceBreak as an alternative to Apache?

[Niels Liisberg <liisberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Den 30/12/2010 kl. 23.10 skrev Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen:
>
> > Den 30/12/10 22.33, Kevin Turner skrev:
> > > Yes your assumption is correct (at least from my perspective).
> > >
> > > "If so, the typical Apache solution to the overhead of CGI is to embed
> > > the language environment in the Apache binary instead of invoking it
> > > every time."
> > >
> > > Where can I read more about this?  It is not a technique I am familiar with.
> > It was pioneered by the Perl folks (who have some very ingenious hackers 
> > because Perl attracts those), who loved writing CGI scripts in Perl but 
> > found that the repeated invocation of the Perl interpreter to run the 
> > scripts was a bottleneck, so they figured out how to put the Perl 
> > interpreter inside the Apache binary.
>
> .. this is the way PHP also makes an OK performance - the interpreter is loaded with apache - the PHP_MOD 
>
> > See Wikipedia for a very brief overview:  
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_perl
> >
> > and more details here http://www.perl.com/pub/2002/02/26/whatismodperl.html
> >
> > Since all this was being developed on Unix boxes the code is carefully 
> > tuned to that platform.
> >
> > -- 
> >  Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen  "...plus... Tubular Bells!"
> >
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