Alternatives to mod_perl ?

Arunbear has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks,

I'm aware of two such alternatives (for running Perl persistently to service http requests) - Fastcgi and SpeedyCgi. I have two questions:

are Fastcgi and SpeedyCgi equivalent in terms of performance?
are there any other good cgi accelerators out there?

Thanks.

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Re: Alternatives to mod_perl ? by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 05, 2003 at 11:27 UTC
PPerl by Matt Sergeant is another alternative, that supposedly is even plug and play. `perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The $d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider ($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Alternatives to mod_perl ? by adrianh (Chancellor) on Nov 05, 2003 at 11:50 UTC
Other alternatives to mod_perl include PersistentPerl and PPerl. I've not used any of these in anger so I can't comment on their speed or utility.	[reply]
Re: Alternatives to mod_perl ? by zby (Vicar) on Nov 05, 2003 at 11:28 UTC
A bit orthodox: Net::HTTPServer.	[reply]
Re: Alternatives to mod_perl ? by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 05, 2003 at 16:13 UTC
In addition to the others cited, there is PerlEx on Windows. Which one will work for you depends on what platform you are running on and whether or not you have root privileges on that system. Is there a particular issue that you are trying to solve by using an alternative to mod_perl, or are you just curious?	[reply]

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