Re: New Perl rewrite - embedded Perl

[Hildo Biersma]

Bennett Todd wrote:
> 
> I think the complaint about mod_perl's weight bears looking at,
> despite the success of the INN embedding. One invocation of INN is
> likely to do a sufficiently heroic amount of work that the weight
> and bulk of a perl in there may well not hurt a bit.
> 
> A single httpd in something like apache isn't doing a whole heck of
> a lot; to run a really high-volume server you want hundreds of the
> things, and that gets out of hand terribly fast. mod_perls do not
> help matters.

Some would argue that a better design is required.  Apache 2.0 will use
a mixed thread/process model, and mod_perl 2.0 will run selected threads
within one process, precisely to alleviate these problems.  So it's not
necessarily perl's fault...

Hildo