On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 01:46, Alex Daniloff wrote:
Hello SuSE folkz, Some one asked me a question about using Perl CGI for moderate and heavily loaded commercial web sites. Could somebody enlighten me if Perl CGI can handle a tough load. I think that production CGI environment should be written entirely in C/C++ but I can be mistaken. Are there any commercial web sites which use Perl CGI for their web applications? Thank you in advance for any information. Alex
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As far as I am aware Amazon.com is still written entirely in Perl. I think yahoo is too, though I can't find any links to it anymore. With the use of mod_perl and apache you can gain faster performance than C/C++ web applications because the Perl code actually runs inside the web server process (like ASP with Microsoft's IIS) so you dont need to fork off another process for each request like you would need to do with either Perl without mod_perl+apache or C. Basically if you already have a collection of incredibly good C programmers, write it in C, otherwise learn Perl (or even PHP), you will save a huge amount of time (and cut down on memory leaks by quite a bit!) Ewan