Re: nginx and lua for web scripting

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> The re-query overhead is a bigger deal than the spawn overhead, in
> light of the other comments that have been made in the thread. ;) I
> mean, a really slim inetd-based server can do the job efficiently
> enough, so there's gotta be more than that to make it a big deal.

also remember that Hipp's programs are some of the tightest C programs
out there (SQLite, Fossil...), while most web developers use heavy
runtimes (Ruby, Python, Java) that take very significant times before
starting to run any user's code.

On top of that, most frameworks have to gather all the data model
classes, URL maps, database connections, etc.   doing all this just
once is a huge advantage over the once-per-request mandated by classic
CGI

in short: CGI is great if you program your webapps in C (or Lua!)
without any MVC framework.  If not, FastCGI is much better.

-- 
Javier