I'm coming late to the party, but I can report a performance improvement I accomplished yesterday under Apache 2.2. Using ModPerl::Registry, I reduced the turnaround time for a simple request from about 2.2 seconds to about 125ms. That's for a CGI::Application system accessing a MySQL database.

I'm pretty happy with that improvement.

Finally, upgrading your software can be quite an investment in your time, but you're more likely to be able to get help when you are using a more up to date version of software. Something to consider.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

In reply to Re: Why can code be so slow? by talexb
in thread Why can code be so slow? by freakingwildchild

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