Do Rev CGI Suffer Performance HIts?

Alex Tweedly alex at tweedly.net
Mon May 16 14:23:44 EDT 2005


Dan Shafer wrote:

> OK, having spent some time in the archives, I think I've answered my  
> own question.
>
> It *is* necessary for a Rev CGI script to load separately for each  
> instance/call. That's not terribly efficient but it's like all other  
> CGI methods except for mod_perl and probably some other even more  
> obscure methods.
>
> I ran across a couple of references to a comment perhaps made by  
> Scott Raney that load time is pretty instantaneous and therefore  
> shouldn't be a performance problem (though it might clearly become a  
> *resource* problem on the server).
>
> So I think I'll experiment with this a bit, using Python and Rev for  
> a couple of simple but heavily used CGI and see what results I get.
>
as well as mod_perl, there is also mod_python - so if transaction rate 
is important to you, you may want to try that as well as python as CGI.

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