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in thread Time to write a "serious" http server in Perl?

Why would qpsmtpd be an acceptable use of Perl as a network server, while an http server would not be acceptable?

Is it simply that smtp servers have a finite number of behaviors, while http servers tend to have a much more broad range of possible uses - so that the server cannot be optimized for every kind of situation?
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Re^5: Time to write a "serious" http server in Perl?
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Aug 17, 2008 at 22:34 UTC

    The only substantive difference I can imagine right now is that HTTP tends to be synchronous and SMTP somewhat more asynchronous. Whether that matters much where the main constraint tends to be network IO, conclusions vary.

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