Re: Mason + FastCGI

On Oct 1, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:

> Excerpts from Pedro Melo's message of Thu Oct 01 02:55:28 -0400 2009:
>>> OK; then why not use only what you need?  It'd be trivial to write
>>> an app whose
>>> Controller::Root had a single action (at /, with any number of args)
>>> that
>>> handed off to a Mason view to do the real work.  You get fastcgi and
>>> the
>>> standalone server for free AND the Mason component reloading that
>>> you enjoy so
>>> much.
>>
>> That would work, but isn't that a bit extreme? Use the entire Cat
>> stack just to get FastCGI?
>
> * FastCGI
> * standalone dev server
> * futureproofing
>
> I don't understand saying "the entire Cat stack".  It's not like I'm  
> pulling in
> a session module and an ORM and a form builder and a twitter client  
> -- it's
> just a HTTP abstraction and a URI dispatcher[1].  If we were talking  
> about
> Jifty I might get where you're coming from.
>
> hdp.
>
> 1. OK, it's also a logger and some debug stuff.  Those both  
> lightweight and
> worth it to me anyway.

Catalyst will add *something* to memory footprint, startup time, and  
per-request execution time, no matter how lightly you are using its  
features. It doesn't exactly seem like a ::Tiny module. I haven't  
benchmarked to see what this is over straight Mason.

Hans, feel like doing a quick benchmark since you already clearly have  
Catalyst installed? :)

Jon


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