[Openinteract-dev] Using FastCGI as development plaftorm

[<an...@io...>]

I will post this also here since not everybody pays so close attention 
to JIRA ;)

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After few days I can recommend to to use FastCGI instead of mod_perl as 
your development platform. The benefits:

* Initialization is not done twice as with (at least DSO) mod_perl.

* Stopping apache is instantaneous and doesn't cause a memory consuming 
loop as sometimes with mod_perl.

* All initialization is done on the first request after apache restart. 
This makes it possible to restart apache when you stop testing, so that 
you don't need to restart apache after you modify the code (just as with 
CGI.)

* After the first request everything works slightly faster than with 
mod_perl since only one process is running and thus there is no need to 
pollute huge amounts of memory on each request.

- Antti

PS. Doesn't this list accept CC'd posts or do they require 
administration approval? I think at least two mails are missing, one 
from me and one from Salve.