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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 07:07:37 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 5 Aug 1996 16:29:15 GMT
From: russell@nntp1.best.com (Jeff Harrington)
Message-Id: <4u57gr$130@nntp1.best.com>
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <4u2s73$pcc@nntp1.best.com>
Subject: Re: CGI Library in Icon
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Status: O
Jeff Harrington (russell@nntp.best.com) wrote:
: I'm being encouraged to abandon Perl and was wondering if anybody had
: developed such a thing. My thinking is that by using iconc and generating
: compiled programs I'll get the performance advantage of C plus the
: elegance of Icon.
Just to comment about dropping Perl; perl requires the loading and
unloading of an interpreter for every process. If your site gets over
200,000 visits a day this is just unmanageable; most programmers at these
types of sites use C/C++. Some servers do allow you to maintain the Perl
interpreter in memory, but I still think a compiled Icon or C executable
would give superior performance.
I was getting ready to port my Eliza WWW program back to C when I started
thinking....
(http://www.parnasse.com/drwww.shtml)
Jeff Harrington "Art does not make peace...
jeff@parnasse.com That is not its business...
http://www.parnasse.com Art is peace." -- Robert Lowell