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I wonder if anybody here has experience with mod_perl, mod_python or mod_php and can tell what advantages it brings or not. Lutz Even though newLisp has a very quick startup, It's expensive, from an operating system point of view, to constantly start a new newLisp process for each request. For very...

nigelbrown wrote:see discussion under ?mod_newlisp at http://www.alh.net/newlisp/phpbb/viewto ... ht=modlisp

Nigel

Sorry, should have searched the forums. I'll check thread out. Thanks.

It may not bring much speed improvement for newLISP because of its fast load time. Lutz You have to think of it in terms of what it does to the overall system environment. Just because you have a fast startup time doesn't mean its virtually free for each invocation. Starting a simple C application ...

Are there any plans to create a mod_newlisp or some other mechanism for using newlisp with Apache that avoids firing a new newlisp proc on every page invocation? I'm very intrigued by newlisp but it would be difficult to build large scale apps without some kind of support like mod_perl, mod_python, ...