Re: How do you use mod_perl for your web application?

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Michael Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd like to see the performance of Starman vs
> mod_perl for normal applications (that don't need to do anything fancy with
> Apache). If it's anywhere close to mod_perl than I suspect lots of people
> would use it instead since it's much easier to setup and also much easier to
> package with your app since it's just a CPAN module. Would be nice to
> through FastCGI into that benchmark too.

I tweeted @miyagawa to see if he had this benchmark, and if memory
serves mod_perl2 was about 75% the speed of Starman in a hello world
benchmark with an unknown mod_perl2 configuration.  I believe the
Starman cpan page has benchmarks vs FastCGI.  My takeaway from those
benchmarks was that all of the webservers tested were essentially
equally fast since they were within 25-50% of the performance of each
other with a simple benchmark.

I'm not sold on packaging the webserver with the application though.
I've been moving towards using the webserver (in my case
httpd/mod_perl2) that is installed with the platform.  One less thing
for me to worry about, in my case the Centos packagers take care of
that problem for me.