Perl vs Servlets

[thendal]

Hai!

I love perl.But recent times some of my collegues insisting me to switch to servelts.

Thier main argument is

In perl for every request its starts as a whole new process and occupies a lot of resources.

but in servelt its not.

Can any one explain about this.

Thanks

Is this is taken care in next release of perl 6.

 

[MikeLacey]

Is this with a web server? If so there is a fix for this with Apache that is designed to get around just this problem.

And what the heck's "servelt"?

 

[thendal]

servelt I mean java servlets.

Iam not sure whether mod perl will solve this

My question in short Whether Java Servlets will replace CGI-Perl.

 

[MikeLacey]

well - they certainly *could* - but I doubt they will, Perl is just a bit easier to learn....

As I said, there are ways to get around the process-per-request problem that perl has on a web site. Have a look at

http://www.apache.org

and

http://www.perl.com

 

[never]

I made myself the same question and after exautive and bad experiences installing mod_perl, I decided to use perl2exe that compiles Perl and all required modules and includes in just one executable file. That solved my speed problem.

 

[MikeLacey]

I can see how that would make things better, but it certainly doesn't remove the problem. You will still have a process created for each cgi script - and that's a load you can probably do without.