cross-post: https://stackoverflow.com/q/44257530/46395

Consider app.psgi: 

#!perl
use 5.024;
use strictures;
use Time::HiRes qw(sleep);

sub mock_connect {
    my $how_long_it_takes = 3 + rand;
    sleep $how_long_it_takes;
    return $how_long_it_takes;
}
sub main {
    state $db_handle = mock_connect($dsn);
    return sub { [200, [], ["connect took $db_handle seconds\n"]] };
}
my $dsn = 'dbi:blahblah'; # from config file
my $app = main($dsn);

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Measuring plackup (HTTP::Server::PSGI: Accepting connections at http://0:5000/): 
› perl -MBenchmark=timeit,timestr,:hireswallclock -E"say timestr timei
+t 10, sub { system q(curl http://localhost:5000) }"
connect took 3.0299610154043 seconds
connect took 3.0299610154043 seconds
connect took 3.0299610154043 seconds
connect took 3.0299610154043 seconds
connect took 3.0299610154043 seconds
connect took 3.0299610154043 seconds
connect took 3.0299610154043 seconds
connect took 3.0299610154043 seconds
connect took 3.0299610154043 seconds
connect took 3.0299610154043 seconds
2.93921 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr +  0.06 sys =  0.09 CPU) @ 107.53/s 
+(n=10)

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Measuring thrall (Starting Thrall/0.0305 (MSWin32) http server listening at port 5000): 
› perl -MBenchmark=timeit,timestr,:hireswallclock -E"say timestr timei
+t 10, sub { system q(curl http://localhost:5000) }"
connect took 3.77111188120125 seconds
connect took 3.15455510265111 seconds
connect took 3.77111188120125 seconds
connect took 3.15455510265111 seconds
connect took 3.77111188120125 seconds
connect took 3.64333342488772 seconds
connect took 3.15455510265111 seconds
connect took 3.77111188120125 seconds
connect took 3.85268922343767 seconds
connect took 3.64333342488772 seconds
17.4764 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr +  0.09 sys =  0.11 CPU) @ 90.91/s (
+n=10)

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This performance is not acceptable because the initialisation happens several times, despite the state variable. How do you make it so it happens only once?

In reply to How do I make a PSGI program do costly initialisation only once per process, not per thread? by daxim

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