mc & cgi: limiting users to one visit

[Pierre Sahores]

Chipp Walters a écrit :
> 
> Andu,
> 
> Quick question. Have you done any speed/load tests using MC-cgi vs PHP or
> ASP? Can one consider MC-cgi a robust, web-application development tool like
> ASP and PHP? I know it doesn't do inline scripting like ASP and PHP, but I
> was wondering if I could use it on a Windows System for building small web
> apps.
> 
> thx,
> 
> Chipp Walters
> 
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Hi Chipp,

MC is a perfect tool to build web applications and to link flat-files
and sql-based databases to the internet (My prefered tools : PostGreSQL
as the db, SQLBoss 1.1 as the db designing ide, PHP4 as the gateway
between the MC "POST" queries and the PostGreSQL replies). I'm using MC
(2.32 for yet) in this way since about the last tree years. I'm spending
some time to build an example stack but it's not out for yet. In between
the far "marketed dead" ColdFusion and the J2EE based web apps servers,
MC is, at least, a "must know how to do with it" web development tool.

About speed : using, last year, the same PII 300 laptop to run the same
end-user app under WinNT4 SP5 and Suse-Linux 6.x, i founded that the
ASP2 drived app was 4 times many slower on the NT platform than the PHP
3.0.16 same drived app on the Suse platform. The MC 2.32 issue of the
same app is always many faster than the PHP3 issue is, on both the WinNT
and the Suse platform. The difference will grow more and more with the
length of the scripts to run : with small scripts, no big diffrence in
speed between MC and PHP ; with long scripts, MC will be up to 100 times
faster than PHP3 and 75 time faster than PHP4.

You will find in the list archive ways to handle MC based web apps as
long running processes. Don't forget that you can, if needed, use PHP as
one of the best MC apps compliant sockets listener. Have fun.

Regards, Pierre Sahores

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