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Forking a process per request is expensive, interpreter or not. Slashdot used apache mod_perl back then. It never forked a process per request.
by jayrwren 9y ago
Forking a process per request is expensive, interpreter or not.
Slashdot used apache mod_perl back then. It never forked a process per request.
- goldenkey 9y agoCGI was commonly used by everybody and anybody in those years. I recall Slashdot having some CGI pages, not everything but forms processing.
- poizan42 9y agoSlashdot started in 1997, the first release of mod_perl was on 12.03.1998. They certainly used cgi at first, just check the url here: https://web.archive.org/web/19980113191337/http://slashdot.org:80/slashdot.cgi?mode=contrib https://web.archive.org/web/19980113191337/http://slashdot.o... - it says cgi right there. Edit: Seems I was wrong about the date, it was actually 28-Jul-1997[1], nevertheless slashdot was only launched two months later, and as the link above witnesses didn't seem to have used it at first. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/19971210053529/http://perl.apache.org:80/src/ https://web.archive.org/web/19971210053529/http://perl.apach...