On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 01:04, Christopher Hicks wrote:
I suspect that starting up perl, and making database connections are 2 of the bottlenecks.
Oh yes. Even MySQL takes a significant time to setup a database connection compared to the rest of the perl script.
Remembering I'm coming in cold on this, but--is there any benefit to be had from using persistant db connections? Just curious. Regarding the Apache dependency issue, it seems that one might be able to achieve a loose coupling to the server (ie. have mod_perl as an option, rather than a requirement). Though I suppose that splits the development effort somewhat. Once again, an entirely uninformed comment! Been writing to a few people describing the sort of hardware we need for the school project, no nibbles yet. Phil, any and all help gratefully received, maybe once I scrape a server together we can swap notes on the setup. Olwen, I'd actually read that obituary before; I played some chess for awhile there and it came up on a web search. Your father sounds like an interesting man, an 'enthusiast'. My nieces and nephews went to Corstorphine school, and my brother looks after their small Windows LAN, so there's a bit of a family connection for me too. -- Cheers, Rich.