in reply to What is Perl *NOT* good at?

I wouldn't write a heavy-duty multi-threaded server in perl - mainly because perl's threading and signals are still iffy, and because of the overhead that perl adds.

Michael

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Re: Re: What is Perl *NOT* good at?
by hardburn (Abbot) on Apr 21, 2004 at 20:50 UTC

    Fortunately, you don't have to. Using Apache2+mod_perl2, you can write a ProtocolHandler in Perl that can do just about anything (</shameless-plug>).

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