Re: Time to write a "serious" http server in Perl?

One thing worth considering is that Perl6 might be a more suitable language for such a project than Perl5. The memory usage of some of the Perl6 implementations is supposed to be greatly improved, and you'll be able to specify native variable types where necessary.

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Re^2: Time to write a "serious" http server in Perl? by jdrago_999 (Hermit) on Aug 13, 2008 at 17:53 UTC
I agree - perhaps a Perl5 prototype would be interesting to kick the tires. A rewrite in Perl6 to take advantage of the new features and optimizations made there would seal the deal. I would write it using Moose now but the performance hit wouldn't be worth it.	[reply]
Re^3: Time to write a "serious" http server in Perl? by stvn (Monsignor) on Aug 14, 2008 at 04:06 UTC
I would write it using Moose now but the performance hit wouldn't be worth it. Actually Moose should perform quite well for something like a HTTP server since the Moose performance hit is largely at compile time and if you utilize the proper optimizations in Moose the runtime can be pretty fast (simple Moose accessors are faster then Class::Accessor). -stvn	[reply]