[rt-users] Re: MASON ?

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 17:35, Partom Rule wrote:
> Regarding whether i want to use mod_perl or FastCGI,
> well 
> i dont know. What are the differences? 

Mod_perl is a perl interpreter linked/embedded within each
httpd (web server) process.  FastCGI is a stand-alone perl process
that communicates directly with the httpd. Both solve the
problem of having to load perl and parse the script for every
request.

> What is better? What will run faster for alot of users
> requests?

There is probably no speed difference with equally well
tuned systems.  Mod_perl is easier if you have a lot of
different perl-based applications since you don't have to
set up separate handlers for each.  FastCGI is easier to
tune for one or a few applications because you can control
how many perl processes to keep running for each since
you set them up separately.

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  Les Mikesell
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