Re: [Openinteract-dev] Using FastCGI as development plaftorm

[Perrin H. <pe...@el...>]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 17:06 +0300, Antti M V=C3=A4h=C3=A4kotam=C3=A4ki wrot=
e:
> * Initialization is not done twice as with (at least DSO) mod_perl.

I don't know anyone who compiles mod_perl as DSO.  There are clear
warnings not to do that.

> * All initialization is done on the first request after apache restart.=20
> This makes it possible to restart apache when you stop testing, so that=20
> you don't need to restart apache after you modify the code (just as with=20
> CGI.)

What does this mean?  That it picks up module changes?  Apache::Reload
does that too.

> * After the first request everything works slightly faster than with=20
> mod_perl since only one process is running and thus there is no need to=20
> pollute huge amounts of memory on each request.

You can easily tell apache how many processes it should run on your
development server.  A FastCGI server intended for production will
certainly run more than one process.

- Perrin