How fast would an old-fashioned CGI program (with no FCGI-style pre-started processes) be on modern hardware? Has anyone tried recently?

Nov 20, 2020 · 7:06 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
What kind of program? It boils down to DB access/networking stuff. If one believes public opinions, a native C Program might be still slower than one written in rust.
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I’m just interested in how much the overhead of launching a process for each request would matter today
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Replying to @stilkov
Serverless a la Apache OpenWhisk is CGI more or less, with reuse and concurrency optimizations and an entire flexible function/script deployment model on top.
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Basically everything is more or less like CGI. I’m just idly wondering whether all the optimizations are still justified vs a simple process-based solution
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Replying to @stilkov
I would say insanely fast. I found this zoomsearchengine.com/zoom/be…
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Replying to @stilkov
I sometimes miss perl...