Re: Alternatives to CGI perl module

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Ruben Safir <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 09:46:52AM -0500, Igor Chudov wrote:
> > Ruben, thank you for your opinion. You have your own opinion and I have
> > mine, and that is what makes the Internet beautiful.
> >
> > Take a look at your own website coinhangout.com. It is down right now.
> But
> > take a look at its google cache:
> >
> > http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?
> q=cache%3Awww.coinhangout.com&oq=cache%3Awww.coinhangout.
> com&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.1525j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
> >
> > click on View Source of that.
> >
> > There you see that most of the page is perl code, in embperl wrappers.
> Just
> > a little HTML head and ending is HTML.
> >
> > This is what I found to be typical of most pages.
>
>
> That is called templates, BTW and is common.  In that case I was
> importing a large modperl application and embedding it into a second
> page.  It was pretty quick and dirty but it did the job to about 80K
> hits a day on a little atom fit/pc processor.
>
> I stopped using the page when someone stole all the coins on the site
> from their home. I lost my stomach for it and passed the site along to a
> friend who may or may not be using it.
>
>
I am sorry to hear this, I am sure that it was a sad moment. Remind your
friend to change the WHOIS information on this domain.


> That doesn't make CGI.pm any less of a pig.  It is th swiss army knife
> of internet programming, but it has a huge cost, especailly if you are
> using large pages heavy on content that are cached in RAM.  It also runs
> a lot of contacts, and can gum up the OS scheduler and wait cues real good.
>
>
>
I use CGI.pm exclusively inside mod_perl. At peak demand around 7pm on week
days, when everyone is doing homework, I serve about 170 or so requests per
second. The server is a 8 CPU virtual server running in google cloud and it
is about 50% busy.

About maybe half of those responses are images generated by mod_perl/CGI.pm
scripts that draw pictures of math formulas like x/(x+1) etc.

I agree that running CGI.pm inside true CGI scripts (one process per every
web object) is expensive. Running it inside mod_perl seems to be extremely
efficient.


>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Ruben Safir <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On 09/10/2016 09:53 PM, Igor Chudov wrote:
> > > > It turns out that HTML has a very minor and subordinate role to perl
> > > > application logic, and putting "perl inside html" was completely
> > > misguided
> > > > and instead I decided to "make html inside perl". Using CGI module of
> > > > course. This was far more maintainable.
> > >
> > >
> > > Just for the record, this is not correct and I think time has proven
> > > that integrating language into the html output has resulted in a
> Marjory
> > > of active server pages.  Aside from Perl, there has been similar
> > > constructions in python, rails, php, etc etc etc...
> > >
> > > I just have a distaste for opinions spouted as facts.
> > >
> > > If anything, CGI.PM is the clumsy huge animal and is problematic, even
> > > from the beginning.  There has always been work arounds to sidestep it
> > > including fastcgi et al.  Use of it is a (huge at times) convenience
> for
> > > some, but speed, organization and efficiency are not it's benefits.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> > > that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> > > proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> > > http://www.mrbrklyn.com
> > >
> > > DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> > > http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
> > > http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive
> > > http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
> > > http://www.brooklyn-living.com
> > >
> > > Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps,
> > > but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
> > >
>
> --
> So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com
>
> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
> http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive
> http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
> http://www.brooklyn-living.com
>
> Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps,
> but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
>
>