I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there is an architectural issue there. I've worked on multiple CGI projects and we start to wonder what we're doing wrong if a page takes more than 5-6s to run, starting from click to beginning to draw ... with the caveat of network latency not counting in that time. That's for the normal pages, exceptions like running reports don't count as that could require pulling GB of data out of the DB.

The last place I worked doing CGI, we had nearly 300 hits per second during peak times and CGI kept up just fine, including auth/sessions and DB connections+retrievals and processing. Sure, you could feel the site slowing a little at that rate, but it wasn't painful. I'll agree that modern hardware removes a number of the old issues of CGI.

Of course, your app may have special needs, lots of back-end calculations or whatever, that prevent quick take some user input to the server, process, return the result.

Part of the reason I'm not overly keene on Mojo is that it pulls in over 30K lines of Perl last I looked (including parts of Moo and who knows what else). Yes, I know that CGI.pm isn't a lightweight, but changing to CGI::Simple or something like it isn't all that bad and yet gets me the basics of what I need to get the job done. I think a lot of this boils down to the choice of do you want to 'roll your own' or use someone else's code?

There are so many frameworks out there that I'm very choosy when to learn a new one and it has to really wow me before I'll spend the time on it. I've yet to find a good wow-factor for the PSGI stuff; if I ever do, I'll look at switching.

In reply to Re^9: Alternative to CGI.pm by kbrannen
in thread Alternative to CGI.pm by sectokia

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