[MTOS-dev] Background Task Change

[Byrne Reese]

Did you guys ever hear of the project I started at Six Apart called
mod_perlite? The concept was to model a stateless apache module for process
perl scripts based upon mod_php.

In this implementation, the Perl interpreter would be loaded into Apache's
memory space and would be spawned into threads by apache itself. No forking
required. 

The theory is that this would of course be a lot faster. Aaron Stone, an
engineer at Six Apart, was helping me with the project (read: he did all the
work), but we are still not finished. Is there interest in exploring this
option further on this group?

Byrne


On 2/12/08 10:42 AM, "Reed A. Cartwright" <reed at scit.us> wrote:

> Hirotaka Ogawa wrote:
>> 
>> I wonder about the feasibility of doing something after closing
>> connection, especially for CGI.  No doubt, it'll be feasible for
>> FastCGI.
> 
> Yeah, it looks like the only way to do appendix tasks with CGI is to
> fork.  Oh well, one more reason to go to FastCGI.