On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:48:48PM +0100, Mark Blackman wrote: > > > > On 4 Aug 2020, at 21:41, Mithun Bhattacharya <mit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am genuinely curious what are these other "well known" means ? > > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:37 PM Mark Blackman <m...@blackmans.org > > <mailto:m...@blackmans.org>> wrote: > > > > > > > On 4 Aug 2020, at 17:58, Mithun Bhattacharya <mit...@gmail.com > > > <mailto:mit...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > mod_perl does have value because it does a more efficient utilization of > > > resources - this is important when fast response time and scalability is > > > important. The complexity is a known problem but it is not a mystery box > > > either - there is enough documentation which explains what has to happen > > > and what could have gone wrong. > > > > mod_perl’s relative efficiency can be achieved by other well-known means. > > That would depend on what you mean by "efficient utilisation of resources”. > You can get the same general effect, more simply, by running a > high-performing pre-forking Perl web application server and a web server with > a simple configuration in front of it ,instead of a complicated > Apache+mod_perl installation. > > That also buys you a nice separation of concerns, the web server handles all > the complicated host or path rewrites and access control and the Perl app > focuses on responding to the, now-sanitised, fully normalized, HTTP requests. >
Not really and the separtion is not a concern, it is an asset, the most important one. To get faster, you would need to move off apache. > - Mark > > > -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
