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I remember when I used a C program with CGI. It was quite fast, and this was decades ago. There were no >100 cores or threads, and RAM was not abundant either,

I remember when I used a C program with CGI. It was quite fast, and this was decades ago. There were no >100 cores or threads, and RAM was not abundant either, it was at best 1 GB. It was doable then, pretty sure it is even more doable today.

PaulDavisThe1st 1y ago
Amazon in 1995 was a C++ executable invoked via CGI () That couldn't scale once load-balancing was required, but it worked pretty well up until that point. () technically, two of them: one handled the front (customer visible) end, one handled the back-office side.
- kragen 1y ago
  Oh right! And then you moved to ISAPI, right?
  - PaulDavisThe1st 1y ago
    No idea, I was gone.
    - kragen 1y ago
      Oh, I hadn't realized you'd left so early.