CGI apps in C?

David J. Orman ormandj at corenode.com
Fri Jul 14 23:09:33 UTC 2006


Just use FastCGI with lighthttpd if you need performance under large amounts of traffic.

David

----- Original Message -----
From: Cody Baker <cody at wilkshire.net>
Date: Friday, July 14, 2006 12:33 pm
Subject: Re: CGI apps in C?

> If you're concerned about large traffic volume, you should give some
> serious considerations to mod_perl.  It, and select scripts, will 
> remainresident therefore avoiding all of the costly setup imposed 
> by CGI. 
> It's quick, well tested, and a pretty popular option.   Popularity  
> maysound trivial, but exploits get fixed in popular apps long 
> before those
> in obscure ones.  It can be a bit memory heavy, but memory is 
> cheap. 
> PHP is cake to program in and pretty useful, but it's SLOW and rather
> ugly to admin. 
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Cody Baker
> cody at wilkshire.net
> 
> 
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