[Seaside] Apache frontend for Squeak, mod_scgi ?

[Avi Bryant]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Jimmie Houchin wrote:

> I think Apache, mod_scgi, and Squeak could outperform Apache, mod_scgi,
> and Python. I don't know how this compares to mod_lisp. But mod_lisp
> also isn't available for Apache2 to my knowledge.

Thanks for pointing SCGI out, I hadn't run into it before.

mod_scgi looks very similar to mod_lisp.  To be honest I've never found
much performance difference between this kind of module (which translate
HTTP requests into a custom protocol which they use to communicate with
the app server)  and mod_proxy, which just forwards the HTTP directly.
It's not like parsing HTTP is inherently slower than parsing
netstrings. However, it would be worth doing some benchmarking with this
module in particular if you've had good experiences with it.

It would probably be quite trivial to implement mod_scgi support for
Seaside if someone felt it was worthwhile (an afternoon's work at most).
That someone probably isn't going to be me, any time soon, however, unless
a client specifically asks for it.

Cheers,
Avi