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Spawning processes on unix is very cheap, Perl was very fast, and even back then disk cache in RAM was a thing. It's a perfectly fine solution if your site does
by bityard 5y ago
Spawning processes on unix is very cheap, Perl was very fast, and even back then disk cache in RAM was a thing. It's a perfectly fine solution if your site doesn't need to scale, and most do not.
- ninkendo 5y agoI'm definitely aware, having done a lot of CGI programming in perl myself back then. But nowadays it just seems so strange to boot up an interpreter and start parsing/validating/executing a script from scratch on every request. Even if you have disk cache and fast process launching, it's just a lot of work you have to do each time.