Perl performance in win32 environ 1

[Arion23]

Hi all,

Been playing around with Perl quite a bit lately, more and more with CGI scripts in an Win2K/IIS environment.

As some of these scripts are to be expecting heavy use, I figured I'd check out performance (not my area, although I'm hoping to work on that ).

Whenever these scripts run, I'm noticing the CPU usage shoots up to 100% while the scripts are running.

1. Is this to be expected?
2. Are there any methods to reduce the load?

Thanks in advance...

 

[simanek]

One of the few problems with perl is that it is done compeletely on the server side of things. This reduces the amount of traffic that your server can handle. A good practice is to write parts in client side script (vbscript, javascript, even perlscript). This eliminates the need for a server to generate a page every time one is requested. What you are doing instead is feeding the browser a standard page and then the client-side script nudges the server for the bits and pieces of the page that it needs to generate. HTH.

Mike
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