[Speedycgi-users] Question about SpeedyCGI sharing processes

[PW <ph...@me...>]

Hello Sam, 

First off, many thanks for providing and maintaining the excellent
SpeedyCGI module. I think it's a super alternative to the heavy ModPerl.

A question came up while I tested a rather code-rich search engine using
SpeedyCGI as back-end in live usage. First, my impression was that
SpeedyCGI shares the same CGI application and all of its loaded modules
between different user processes, except that it forks off new Perl
interpreters for each new process. 

However, I discovered that SpeedyCGI sets up a completely new
environment for each new PID, meaning that the startup penalty for
loading large Perl applications (including modules) applies each time here.

Question: am I missing something here or is there an option to allow
SpeedyCGI to compile the code of one particular  application and share
it across multiple user processes? The SpeedyGroup directive seems
rather to provide an option to allow one Perl interpreter to run
different applications per one unique user process. Or am I totally off
the mark here?

Thanks!

Best regards,

Philippe Wiede

Megapublic [r], Inc. 
www.megapublic.com