Re: http serving options

["jbarciela jbarciela" <jbarciela@...>]

Thanks Javier,

I'll definitely take a look at how to write handlers.

I'm surprised that mod_lua behaves like cgi, in my mind the point of
using a mod_X (mod_perl for example) is to avoid just that, and run
in-process with the server.

About the COMET trick: Does Xavante assumes that the connections get
closed? What if I keep a lot of open connections around? Will that
kill scalability?

Jaime


On 2/11/07, Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 11 February 2007, jbarciela jbarciela wrote:
> > I'm not sure about how fast/scalable is Xavante, in particular if I
> > want to do a lot of Ajax or Comet --
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming). That leaves me
> > looking at lighttpd.
>
> low-latency responses were my principal reason for writing what became
> Xavante.  the point is that even with mod_lua, the CGILua cycle starts by
> creating a new environment for each request-response.  there are
> some 'preloading cache' but i think they're not too complete.
>
> therefore, i'd suggest you try Xavante; but write your code as 'handlers', not
> as CGILua apps.  you'll get far better performance that way.
>
> i've tried to make handlers easy to write; but since (almost) nobody else
> bothered to try them (CGILua is far more popular), i don't know if they're
> easy to understand.
>
> try it. if you have any doubts, i'll be glad to help.
>
> --
> Javier