As we were talking about this on IRC, I mentioned something that I might not have fully explained. In order to avoid the forking overhead, you could instead have one -- or maybe one for each user? The details aren't as important as the concept -- persistant perl executable that is chrooted, secured, etc. You could hand this process various bits of code, which it would then execute and return whatever needs to be returned.

This is all within the realm of standard IPC. You'd have to work out some sort of protocol, consider concurrency issues, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if there are already CPAN modules to take care of some of the work for you, but I don't know of any off the top of my head. This all adds complexity, but the overhead gain may be a net win. You'd have to experiment to be sure.

HTH

In reply to Re: Perlmonks Mush, revisited (Perl as as scripting language) by revdiablo
in thread Perlmonks Mush, revisited (Perl as as scripting language) by BUU

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