Persistent LC server?

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Fri Aug 2 17:41:54 EDT 2013


On 03/08/2013, at 7:16 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> In your code base exploration have you discovered why the Linux Server engine is nearly 50% larger than that non-server Linux standalone engine?

I believe theres some extra libraries included in server.

> > My biggest question though is what event is triggered on the
> > persistent server when you request some part of your array?
> > LC Server scripts are basically just one big startup handler
> > without the handler declaration.
> 
> Right.  If I were to pursue this I'd probably write a quasi-event look, watching a particular socket.

I'm not sure if server has sockets... 
> 
> At the moment, though, I'm on a different path, since I discovered a way to make an array-like file I can access elements within from a cold start at about 0.02ms per access, fast enough for CGI use.

That sounds like the way to go then... use a persistent process and it should be unmeasurable.

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