Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:29:46 +0000 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Randy Katz <randyk@ccsales.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamic or Static Query??? Message-ID: <19980220112946.14414@iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219124848.412K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 12:51:58PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980218111247.13376B-100000@ccsales.ccsales.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219124848.412K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 12:51:58PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Randy Katz wrote: > > I have a general question about a Web Site. Should the pages be generated > > dynamically or statically? > > Absolutely statically. If your hit rate goes ballistic the instances of > perl or sh will drag the system down way before you hit the static file > limit. Generally true. There are tricks you can do to speed this up. You can embed Perl in the Apache server for example, to avoid the startup costs. This also caches a 'compiled' version of your script, so there's no interpretation overhead either. Yields immense speedups. > If the script breaks, the whole thing dies ;( True. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- . . . and relax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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