Spawning a process is not that slow on modern hardware. CGI is considered slow, because back in the 90's, everything was slow and resource constrained. Slow pro

Spawning a process is not that slow on modern hardware. CGI is considered slow, because back in the 90's, everything was slow and resource constrained. Slow processors, limited RAM, slow disks for swap, slow internet connections... I remember developing Perl CGI scripts on a Sparc 10 with 32 megs of RAM connected to a T1 that was nearly always maxed out. On a related note, "modern" cloud-based application development strategies (like AWS Lambda) seem no faster than CGI. We've come full circle. Though now things are more distributed, of course.