Re: Concept for an Apache/mod_perl Perl Application Server

On Tuesday, Nov 26, 2002, at 17:41 Europe/London, Bas A.Schulte wrote:

> I did take a look at POE, and still do now and then, but I just don't 
> seem to get it's concepts to actually get something done on top of it. 
> Recently I tried one of the examples on poe.perl.org 
> (http://poe.perl.org/?Poe_cookbook/Web_Server_With_Forking) briefly 
> but it wasn't very fast, even for NOOP requests.

POE isn't terribly fast, because it has to do a lot of management on 
top of its server system. Where you gain is in sharing - you don't have 
to jump through hoops to share data (except in a multi-server system).

Matt.