CGI isn't slow -- starting interpreters is slow. Starting Python or Ruby can easily be 1000x more expensive than starting a process in C, which takes MICROSECO

CGI isn't slow -- starting interpreters is slow. Starting Python or Ruby can easily be 1000x more expensive than starting a process in C, which takes MICROSECONDS, not hundreds of milliseconds. See this 7 year old message by Richard Hipp (of sqlite): https://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg02065.html https://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.o... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3036124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3036124 This server takes over a quarter million requests per day, 10GB of traffic/day, and it does so using less than 3% of of the CPU on a virtual machine that is a 1/20th slice of a real server.