Re: [Owasp-input-api-developers] spell checked version.

[Steven J. S. <sj...@Ju...>]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, vertigo wrote:
 
> > > This long lifecycle, approach, however, does not make sense in Perl,
> > > unless one uses Apache and mod_perl.  While Java can afford fairly
> > > expensive instantiation, a Perl CGI cannot.  Instantiation may be
> > > handled differently, if at all.  It may not even be OO.
> >
> > Why not?
> 
> No reason at all (to do OO Perl).  I'm just worried about Perl having
> to parse a potentially large signature file every time a request is made.
> I've never had the misfortune of working with a Perl CGI that was actually
> slower than a servlet (at Phlair, the bottlenecks were always the
> Java), so I'm not terribly concerned--but it's just one of those things I
> worry about.

If you're worried about the amount of resources a process running a Perl
CGI might use, perhaps using a module like Fastcgi would address those 
issues.

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