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Is it just me, or is the site "faster" than most?
by equalunique 7y ago
Is it just me, or is the site "faster" than most?
- asark 7y agoBet it's static or server-side rendered, and not running much JS in either case. Every time I've been surprised at the speed of a site in the last few years it's been static or some old-school server-side stuff—even PHP. All our "modern" web stacks are embarrassingly bloated and require heroic effort to be as fast as "bad" old tech.
- Grinnz 7y agoIt is static rendered HTML. But https://perldoc.pl https://perldoc.pl is dynamically rendered (it is a Mojolicious app) and the difference is not noticeable to me except on huge pages. perldoc.perl.org before the refresh was already static HTML but very slow. I think there is a lot more to it than deployment strategy.
- equalunique 7y agoI noticed snappiness on perldoc.pl as well. Fantastic!
- justinator 7y agoBet you're right. The great majority of the site's content is pulled from POD docs that come with the Perl distro. No reason to convert that at every request. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the tooling to make Perldoc is on CPAN already.
- just_myles 7y agoDude, it is fast! wuh?