[Seaside] Apache frontend for Squeak, mod_scgi ?
Jimmie Houchin
jhouchin at texoma.net
Fri Sep 26 15:22:21 CEST 2003
Hello Avi,
Avi Bryant wrote:
> 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.
Your welcome. Maybe it'll come in handy some day. :)
> 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.
I don't know and your probably right. I don't know how any of these
protocols work. I don't know anything about mod_proxy. I definitely
don't know how it would boost performance of Squeak.
Does it just hand off the request to Squeak, still requiring Squeak to
do all the heavy lifting?
> 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.
Understood.
Thanks again.
Jimmie Houchin
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